Public reaction in the United States was to celebrate the capture and rally against Britain, threatening war. The envoys were bound for Britain and France to press the Confederacy's case for diplomatic recognition and to lobby for possible financial and military support. On November 8, 1861, USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet RMS Trent and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate envoys: James Murray Mason and John Slidell. The Lincoln administration ended the incident by releasing the envoys. Navy captured two Confederate envoys from a British Royal Mail steamer the British government protested vigorously.
The Trent Affair was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened a war between the United States and Great Britain.
The San Jacinto (right) stopping the Trent
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