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around the Cape Fear River to protect the port of Wilmington from the Union blockade. During the Civil War, blockade runners brought supplies such as iron

capturing a Confederate transport ship and piloting it to the safety of a Union blockade around the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in 1862. According to

principally used as a dispatch boat and storeship in support of the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America. Renamed Glasgow in

naval battle of the American Civil War, after Lincoln had extended the Union blockade to include Virginia. On June 5, 1861, the Union gunboat USRC Harriet

USS Stettin was a 600-ton iron screw steamship, was built at Sunderland, England, in 1861 and later served as a gunboat in the United States Navy during

American Civil War. At the end of her career, she participated in the Union blockade of South Carolina's ports. She then participated in the raid on Combahee

Civil War. Her primary task was to prevent ships from penetrating the Union blockade of Southern ports. Connecticut, a side wheel steamer, was built in 1861

use at sea in apprehending blockade runners attempting to "run" the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. Shawmut—a screw gunboat begun

Parrott rifle and 32-pounders, and was assigned as a gunboat in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. New London was built at Mystic

Civil War. Rachel Seaman was armed as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America. She

southern coast of the United States for ships attempting to run the Union blockade of Southern ports. She was later the American merchant ship Gussie Telfair

by the Union Navy during the American Civil War for service with the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America. She

USS Britannia was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat and patrol vessel in

state of Georgia. Atlanta ran aground while attempting to break the Union blockade, and after a short battle surrendered to the Union forces. Captain Rodgers

during the American Civil War. She was successful in enforcing the Union blockade of Confederate ports, capturing five ships carrying contraband. She

manufactured in England, but the confrontation at Fort Sumter initiated the Union blockade which prevented delivery of the machinery. In April 1861, the Confederacy

SS Syren was launched in England in 1863 and made 33 runs through the Union blockade during the American Civil War before Union forces captured her in 1865

of the Knoxville campaign before Confederate forces surrendered to a Union blockade in nearby Blaine. In the early 20th century, Bean Station experienced

September 2011. Underwood, Rodman L (2008). Waters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War. McFarland. pp. 7, 78, 79. ISBN 978-0-7864-3776-4

steamer, was captured at sea in December 1864 attempting to run the Union blockade of the Confederacy. The United States Navy purchased her from the New

was a major figure of the British merchants' effort to circumvent the Union blockade of exports from the Confederate states. He was a younger son of the

the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto and the 1863 Battle of Galveston. The Union blockade around the city of Galveston was lifted temporarily for four days, and

Florida's defenses. His troops policed illegal trade between locals and the Union blockade fleet, eventually finding it necessary to stop all outbound traffic

the crew of Virginia were unsuccessful in their attempts to break the Union blockade. The blockade had been bolstered by the hastily ram-fitted paddle steamer

War, following the surrender of Fort Sumter. As Lincoln extended the Union blockade to include Virginia, the rebels (notionally Confederates) tried to deny

Sound became a center of smuggling supplies for Confederates through a Union blockade of the Chesapeake Bay. Marking the line between the Union (Maryland)

a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton

Like John Surratt, Baxley was a courier and carried letters across the union blockade. Baxley's son, a 17-year-old Confederate soldier, was also imprisoned

Confederacy to destroy the wooden ships in Hampton Roads, and to end the Union blockade which had already seriously impeded the Confederate war effort. American

imports from England (and Europe), these weapons had to pass through the Union blockade and the number that actually reached the Confederate army is unknown

to use her for carrying arms and other contraband cargo through the Union blockade to the Confederacy. She steamed in ballast via Glasgow to Liverpool

established a cotton bureau in Houston, Texas in order to escape the Union blockade along the Gulf. After the war Bryan moved to Galveston (1872), Quintana

States. The Confederacy also lacked a navy in which to counter the Union blockade. Subsequently the Confederates looked to foreign sources to meet their

gaining access to Samoan resources, particularly coconut oil and copra. Union blockade of Confederate sugar and cotton exports during the American Civil War

(CSN) commanding. The battery had been removed and she ran through the Union blockade on December 24, 1864 while the United States fleet was preoccupied with

Confederate cotton to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1863. Due to the Union blockade of ports along the Gulf of Mexico, shipping cotton to Mexico was one

In 1864, Hammersley brought new presses from England, having run the Union blockade, although he sold half his interest to James W. Lewellen before his

cargo of cotton. Maffit made several more successful runs through the Union blockade in Owl before the war ended. During his service to the Confederacy,

Cartoon of Union blockade

Xavier Debray wrote in a letter than the city was not defensible. The Union blockade still struggled with ineffectiveness, and the decision was made to capture

ISBN 0-521-27367-6. Underwood, Rodman L. (2008). Waters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0786437764

could be made by running cargoes of war-making materiel through the Union blockade to the munitions-hungry Confederacy. Originally owned by Edwin Haigh

important trade routes. Shipping at Bayport attracted the attention of the Union Blockade Squadron which intercepted eleven blockade runners near there between

of love for his traitorous fiancé. Virginia sails off to break the Union blockade at Hampton Roads. Betty is promptly arrested by Lt. Guilford (Philip

John E. Hart, who had died aboard his ship while taking part in the Union blockade of the Mississippi River. This event is re-enacted every June during

shortages for the industrial workers in Britain were caused by the Union blockade of Southern ports. In March 1862 James Murray Mason made it to England

ironclad USS Monitor in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads during the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Confederates burned the shipyard again when they

States Navy: USS Harcourt (1864), a Civil War tugboat that served on the Union blockade USS Harcourt (IX-225), a Liberty ship launched 27 December 1942 and

coast, which resulted in the capture of an invaluable base for the Union blockade and future amphibious operations. During this engagement Pawnee was

just before the fall of the city. The ironclad battles through the Union blockade of the James River before disappearing into history. It is carrying

1861 the Confederate Congress believed that the best way to remove the Union blockade was through cotton diplomacy, or a cotton embargo. De facto popular

other nearby waterways to get supplies to the Confederacy despite the Union blockade at Hampton Roads. List of rivers of Virginia "An Act for amending the

10,000) to the South. However these weapons had to pass through the Union blockade and the number that actually reached the Confederate army is unknown

Confederate blockade runners CSS Elizabeth and CSS Bendigo and the Union blockade ship USS Iron Age. The remains of the Bendigo can be seen on the eastern

north of Jupiter Inlet, Florida, she was attempting to slip through the Union blockade laden with salt badly needed by the Confederacy. She was taken to Key

launched 101 days from the signing of the contract, in time to defend the Union blockade during the Battle of Hampton Roads. Along with John Ericsson, Griswold

New York 26 July 1862 to take station near Key West as part of the Union blockade. En route on the 31st, she captured British steamer Memphis near Cape

January 1863 at Sabine Pass, resulting in a temporary lifting of the Union blockade on the Texas coast. She is believed to have continued to serve as a

was his staunch judicial support of the president's war measures: the Union blockade (Prize Cases, 67 U.S. 635 (1862)); issuance of paper money (i.e., greenbacks);

Northern Virginia came through Wilmington. Now with the port closed, the Union blockade was complete; the Confederates were unable to find another port along

collier, a dispatch boat and a picket and patrol boat in support of the Union blockade of Southern waterways. Once Charleston, South Carolina, had been captured

preventing the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia from breaking the Union blockade at Hampton Roads in the spring of 1862, the navy became enthused with

commanded by Acting Master Woodbury H. Polley, the steamer served in Union blockade of the Confederate coast operating along the coasts of South Carolina

Confederacy during the war and at times helped its ships evade the Union blockade, so feared retaliation. Those garrisons never had to serve their intended

September 2011. Underwood, Rodman L (2008). Waters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War. McFarland. pp. 7, 78, 79. ISBN 978-0-7864-3776-4

headquarters of its West Indian Squadron, which helped maintain the Union blockade in the Florida Straits[citation needed]. Haiti also took advantage of

back to the newspaper. In March, 1864 Reid went out to meet the Bat, a Union blockade runner, which had been captured off Charleston, South Carolina, and

Hampton Roads. Da Capo Press. p. 6. Still, William N. “A Naval Sieve: The Union Blockade in the Civil War.” Naval War College Review, vol. 36, no. 3, 1983, pp

time to time engaging Confederate coastal batteries as she served the Union blockade. Her faithful performance of duty in an area remote and neglected by

(2003). Masters of the Shoals: Tales of the Cape Fear Pilots Who Ran the Union Blockade. Da Capo Press. p. 188. ISBN 0-306-81280-0. The Ships of Dr. Samuel

loved peace, but he made a small fortune running sugar through the Union blockade. He was also a slave owner, and there are slave quarters next to McLean's

established an office in New York City and sold cotton allowed through the Union blockade of southern ports. The proceeds from these sales were used to purchase

deprived the South of her largest and wealthiest city, tightened the Union blockade, and gave promise of restoring the entire Mississippi Valley to the

shipments to Cuba were curtailed, but not completely stopped, by the Union blockade of Florida during the Civil War. After the war ended, shipments of cattle

in the shipping industry and port cities, ending a great boom. The Union blockade of the Confederate States of America severely damaged the South's plantation

the Confederacy" because trade occurred at the border, bypassing the Union blockade. The Confederacy repulsed all Union attempts to shut down this route

Boyd attempted to travel to England, but she was intercepted by a Union blockade and sent to Canada where she met Union naval officer Samuel Wylde Hardinge

and confusion. In the 30th of April 1864 She was dispatched past the Union blockade to Cuba, loaded with a cargo of cotton. At Havana she was entered into

conspicuous absence coming in the wake of CSS Virginia's attempt to break the Union blockade early in the spring of 1862. Towed to Baltimore, Maryland by Mount Vernon

Confederacy of her most productive industrial center, tightened the Union blockade, and raised hope of restoring the entire Mississippi Valley to the Federal

Nassau. However, all of the crew agreed to join in the effort to run the Union blockade. Fingal was able to slip safely into the Savannah estuary in a heavy

in the defense of Mobile, Alabama, and ultimately to challenge the Union blockade of that port. The fact that these engines were installed in CSS Tennessee

Ivana Cucevic and Marijo Dundovic, was a merchant seaman who ran the Union blockade during the Civil War. Mercer was George's fourth son, and his first

During the American Civil War, American cotton exports slumped due to a Union blockade on Southern ports, and because of a strategic decision by the Confederate

Confederacy traded cotton through Nuevo León and Coahuila due to the Union blockade of their ports. On 14 February 1864, during the French intervention

ironclad USS Monitor in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads during the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Confederates burned the shipyard again when they

the discovery and capture of Confederate blockade runners during the Union blockade of southern ports. Coston flares also played an important role in coordinating

this opposition continued despite the hardships resulting from the Union blockade and the consequent 'cotton famine'. Philip fought in eight major battles

the discovery and capture of Confederate blockade runners during the Union blockade of southern ports. Coston flares also played an important role in coordinating

Union forces then established a base of operations to support the Union blockade of Confederate ports. Silverstone, Warships, p. 27. Silverstone, Warships

Union. Unable to obtain cotton from the southern states because of the Union blockade, Morton suspended his cotton business for the duration of the conflict

earlier in order to prevent the lighthouse from aiding ships of the Union blockade, which were patrolling the Apalachee Bay. In March of that year, a Federal

JSTOR 30241907. Underwood, Rodman L. (2008). Waters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War. McFarland. p. 200. ISBN 9780786437764

Hale drove off four Confederate vessels which attempted to break the Union blockade of the Mud and Wright's Rivers, tributaries of the Savannah River. This

Royal Navy frigate HMS Immortalité to avoid being in violation of the Union blockade, and crossed the Rio Grande into Brownsville, Texas. Within three hours

crop during this time. As a result of high premiums on cotton from the Union blockade of the Gulf and borders, the Wends smuggled cotton for sale on European

naval operations against First Battle of Charleston Harbor and the Union Blockade were both supported by the port. In 1862, Drayton was assigned command

forces captured several coastal areas for use as naval ports for the Union blockade, including Port Royal, South Carolina and the Outer Banks of North Carolina

unsuccessful attempt to halt the ironclad ram's progress through the Union blockade to the Mississippi River. . Coxswain Morrison was discharged from the

South by imposing a new 15% tax on all imports from the Union. The Union blockade stopped most commerce from entering the South, and smugglers avoided

commanded his ship's forward division during the squadron's attack on the Union blockade (January 31, 1863). Intrigued by the army's experiments with torpedoes

state of North Carolina and on 28 June 1863 she successfully ran the Union blockade into Wilmington. At Wilmington the ship was changed to local registry

shortages in medicines, supplies, and equipment due to the ongoing Union blockade of Southern ports, as well as a shortage of few trained surgeons, Moore's

other goods for the Confederacy along the Rio Grande river to avoid the Union blockade and allow exports from the Confederacy to Europe Lamar County Alabama

sister Jennie smuggled drugs and clothing across the Potomac through the Union blockade for Confederate troops. They were forced to leave Baltimore after federal

sister Jennie smuggled drugs and clothing across the Potomac through the Union blockade for Confederate troops. They were forced to leave Baltimore after federal

was sunk with a million-dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston. March 21 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, which

battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter, SC. In July 1861, a Union blockade of the Southern coast reached Texas and stopped all immigration, Czech

munitions to the Confederacy, bringing out tobacco and cotton. The Union blockade increasingly shut down Confederate ports, and by late 1864 the blockade

1.5", the series deals with the team heading to Japan to breakup a Union blockade. The series was published digitally for 14 chapters, which were eventually

been killed, captured or had deserted. Charlotte, however, ran the Union blockade across the Ohio River, and evidently made thousands of dollars doing

would sue for peace. The South lost its lucrative export market as the Union blockade shut down all commercial traffic, with only very expensive blockade

of the war and has descended into disrepair. Shortages caused by the Union blockade and the Confederate requisitioning of supplies and slaves have turned

(2): 292–298. doi:10.1093/ei/cbg008. Ekelund, Robert B. (1992). "The Union Blockade and Demoralization of the South: Relative Prices in the Confederacy"

JSTOR 30241907. Underwood, Rodman L. (2008). Waters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War. McFarland. p. 200. ISBN 978-0786437764

of both armies. Separately and privately, he still sailed past the Union blockade mostly at night to continue cattle sales to Cuba as usual. As a result

intended to be used as blockade runners to smuggle supplies through the Union blockade, though they proved to be slow for such a purpose in service. Before

seeing to Navy needs. Meanwhile, the buildup of the fleet to tighten the Union blockade of the South increased the Navy’s need for arms and ammunition in Hampton

firms, Carlisle and Humphries, actually saw profits increase during the Union blockade. His fortunes abruptly changed after the war, however, and his taxable

cover to Confederate shipping. The first Confederate steamer to run the Union blockade entered Wilmington in December 1861, and trade through Port of Wilmington

Quiggins and Co., Ltd. Their plan called for her to run through the Union blockade with highly profitable cargo desperately needed by the beleaguered South

elected to the Confederate Senate. His return home, because of the Union blockade, found him landing at the Sabine Pass near the Texas and Louisiana border

the eight slave crewmen made their previously planned escape to the Union blockade ships. Smalls put on the captain's uniform and wore a straw hat similar

destroyed, or lay in disrepair. Those that remained were pressed into being Union blockade runners. Furthermore, a trickle but worrisome number of slaves began

Latin America. During the American Civil War, Walker's ships ran the Union blockade and ensured that Southern troops were well-supplied, leading to their

Seaman to capture the schooner Nymph which was attempting to run the Union blockade off Pass Cavallo. Just eight days later, William G. Anderson spotted

risen to 93 million pounds. During the American Civil War, when the Union blockade had cut off the American South from the world economy, the price of

Scorpion-class ironclads – powerful warships capable of breaking the Union blockade which were then under construction in England – were allowed to leave

colonel. American Civil War portal List of American Civil War generals (Union) Blockade of Africa Louisville in the American Civil War USS Niagara (1855) Some

ordered to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, near Charleston. The Union blockade of Charleston harbor was effective, but the city remained in Confederate

would be loaded on to blockade runners which would attempt to run the Union blockade into a southern port. At the time there was considerable demand for

spite of the opposition of General Nathan B. Forrest. From 1861, the Union blockade shut Mobile, and, in 1864, the outer defenses of Mobile were taken by

Carolina, where they had been stationed for nearly a year as part of the Union blockade of Confederate ports. This was a particularly active period in this

factories supplying rails and equipment were in the North, and the Union blockade kept the South from getting new equipment or spare parts. The war was

received newsprint from mills in the northeastern United States. A Union blockade of the Gulf Coast made newsprint even scarcer, and Cushing was forced

Quarterly. 69 (2). Ekelund, Robert B.; Thornton, Mark (1992). "The Union Blockade and Demoralization of the South: Relative Prices in the Confederacy"

immediately joined in the battle with the CSS Virginia against the Union blockade and shore batteries. One eyewitness described the "little Teaser...

could not only retain the Union hold on Fort Monroe but support the Union blockade of Chesapeake Bay, move up the Peninsula and threaten to retake Norfolk

navigational skills made him effective in extraordinary runs through the Union blockade into southern ports. As commander of the C.S.S. Florida, he captured

South Carolina and Georgia coastline. His maps were important to the Union blockade because the new charts allowed the Navy to identify coastal hiding places

He subsequently piloted the steamer Wren to Galveston through the Union blockade. In an April 1865 letter Magruder writes that Smith will bring in a

Navy (Naval Institute Press). 2021 Michael Bonner & Peter McCord The Union Blockade in the American Civil War, A Reassessment (University of Tennessee Press)

war effort, they reached a peak relatively late in the war, when the Union blockade was getting stronger. While documenting it thoroughly, historian Stephen