63/80 157.] [Footnote 688: F.O., Am., Vol.843.No.85.Bunch to Russell, June 25, 1862. He reported a general burning of cotton estimating the amount so destroyed as nearly one million bales.] [Footnote 689: Rhodes, III, p. 503, leaves the impression that England was at first unanimous in attributing the cotton disaster to the War. It was the general public belief but not that of the well informed. |