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Relates naval encounters of the Civil War and the Union blockade of the South, including battles of the first ironclads and some adventures of Southern privateers.
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"It is essentially necessary that the Navy should at this time put forth all its strength and demonstrate to the country and to foreign powers its usefulness and capability in protecting and supporting the Government and the Union." - Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, September 18, 1861
The United States and the Confederate States faced many urgent and perplexing problems when, with the surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, they suddenly found themselves at war and utterly unprepared to fight.
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In short, it was succor only, not sustenance, that filtered through the blockade to the beleaguered Confederacy. And even though the War was decided on the battlefield, not the blockade line, it surely would have been a different war had the United States Navy not stood silent guard along the Southern coasts.
Relates naval encounters of the Civil War and the Union blockade of the South, including battles of the first ironclads and some adventures of Southern privateers.
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