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Blockade, Privateering, and the 1856 Declaration of Paris
In April 1861, the commanders in chief of both the United States and Confederacy issued far ranging proclamations. Abraham Lincoln declared a blockade of Confederate ports while Jefferson Davis issued a call for privateers to make war on US seaborne … Continue reading
Sea Power at Port Royal Sound: A Missed Opportunity?
On November 5, 1861, the Confederate Secretary of War established the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida as a military department, assigning one of his most senior and experienced officers, General R. E. Lee, to command it. No … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Navies, Personalities, Weapons
Tagged Battle of Port Royal, blockade, Charleston, Coast Defenses, David Farragut, David Porter, Fort Beauregard, Fort Walker, Joint Army and Navy Operations, Port Royal Sound, Robert E. Lee, Samuel F. DuPont, Savannah, Sea Power, Thomas W. Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant
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A Poet’s Perspective: Melville and The Stone Fleet
I have a feeling for those ships, Each worn and ancient one, With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam; Ay, it was unkindly done. But so they serve the Obsolete— Even so, Stone Fleet! It was apparent from … Continue reading
The Naval Civil War in Theaters Near and Far
Civil War military history occurs in the context of “theaters” including the Eastern, the Western, and the Trans-Mississippi with sub-theaters within each. This framework organizes operations in terms of discrete location, environment, interacting events, influences, and consequences. The naval side … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Navies
Tagged blockade, Civil War theaters, coasts and harbors, commerce raiders, Mississippi campaign, navies
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My Favorite Historical Person: Eugene Matthew O’Brien
Eugene Matthew O’Brien is among those obscure Civil War multitudes whose collective stories inspire for their courage, dedication, and sacrifice even if we know little about them individually—although his story is a bit unusual. O’Brien was a steam engineer who … Continue reading
Civil War Echoes: Pearl Harbor
Today 75 years ago the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, catapulting the United States into World War II – a conflict that turned out to be the country’s bloodiest save for the Civil War. Many of the U.S. ships in Pearl … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal, Navies, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Admiral David G. Farragut, Antietam Campaign, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Mobile Bay, Battle of the Wilderness, Battle of Wilderness, Bennet Place, blockade, California, CSS Virginia, David Dixon Porter, David Farragut, Early's invasion of Maryland, Fall of New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Japan, Medal of Honor, Monitor, Monitor and Merrimac, New Orleans, Pearl Harbor, Roger B. Taney, St. Louis, Tennessee, USS Cumberland, USS Monitor, West Virginia, West Virginia statehood, World War II
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Question of the Week: 11/14-11/20/16
Was the Union blockage of the South legal? Was it effective in the tactical objective of stopping commerce? Did it achieve the strategic goal of significantly reducing Confederate resources, morale, and military capability, and thereby facilitating victory?
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Navies, Question of the Week
Tagged blockade, Federal Blockade
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Wilmington: The Last Open Port on the Confederate Coast
“Though the popular clamor centers upon Charleston, I consider Wilmington a more important point,”[i] stated Gustavus V. Fox to Acting Rear Admiral Samuel Phillip Lee in the fall of 1862. Wilmington, N.C. arose along the banks of the Cape Fear … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged blockade, Capre Fear, Fort Fisher, Gustuvus Fox, J.G. Foster, Monitor, navy, North Carolina, wilmington
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