Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation

[L Verge]

Weren't the British still building ships for the Confederacy well past 1862? They must have been running the blockade also because it was the fall of 1864 when Rose O'Neal Greenhow tried to escape from a British ship that she was on -- in possession of dispatches and $2000 in gold that I would assume were coming from Europe.