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	Union blockade Summary
		The Union blockade refers to the naval actions between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, in which the United States Navy maintained a massive effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy.
		In the initial phase of the blockade, Union forces concentrated on the Atlantic coast[7], gradually extending its reach into the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Texas coastline.
		The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron was based at Hampton Roads, Virginia and was tasked with coverage of Virginia and North Carolina.
	www.bookrags.com /Union_blockade (3074 words)

	Union blockade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A joint Union military-navy commission, known as the Blockade Strategy Board, was formed to develop plans for seizing key Southern ports to utilize as Union bases of operations to expand the blockade.
		Blockade runners faced an increasing risk of capture—in 1861 and 1862, one sortie in 9 ended in capture; in 1863 and 1864, one in 3.
		The Gulf Blockading Squadron was a squadron of the United States Navy in the early part of the War, patrolling from Key West to the Mexican border.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_blockade (2760 words)

	The Civil War in Georgia
		After a night of Union bombardment that the Confederates could not return, the north scarp of the fort was destroyed and incoming shells were landing close to the magazine, where a direct hit would cause a cataclysmic explosion.
		While the Union had the resources to capture and blockade ports all along the southern coast, enough soldiers to actually capture the port cities were not easy to transport by sea.
		Union cavalry attempted the same trick, but were defeated by Confederates at Lovejoy's Station on August 20.
	www.cherokeerose.com (2508 words)

	15 - Hard Times
		At first, the blockade attempt to cut off the flow of goods to and from the South was largely inconsequential because there were too few ships available to guard a huge area.
		Union navy officers also learned how to deploy smaller boats capable of moving around in the shallow bay while the large blockade ships remained on the perimeter.
		Some blockade runners continued to outfox the Union navy by hiding in the deep tributaries feeding the Apalachicola River north of the town.
	www.cr.nps.gov /seac/benning-book/ch15.htm (2734 words)

	Corsican ports open as union eases blockade - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		PARIS After a weekend of violent demonstrations, a militant French labor union said Sunday that it would lift its blockade of Corsican ports, allowing thousands of stranded tourists to leave the island and lowering tensions in a political crisis that had isolated the island from the European mainland.
		But the labor union, whose leaders commandeered a ferry last week to demonstrate their anger over the privatization of a state-owned ferry company, said the lifting of the blockade was only an "appeasement" measure and warned of further actions if the plans for privatization were not scrapped.
		Alain Mosconi, the leader of the dockers and seamen branch of the Corsican Workers' Union, said that the lifting of the blockade was a "responsible move" but that strikes and other protest actions could resume after the nationwide protest Tuesday.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/10/02/news/corsica.php (889 words)

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		For example included amongst Lincoln’s initial actions against the states in secession was the blockading of their ports by the Union Navy as well as an increase of 18,000 in the navy.
		The Union used their blockade ships starting on April 27, 1861 when Lincoln declared an unprecedented blockade of the 3,500 mile long Southern Coast which ahd nearly 200 inlets.
		Initially this blockade was more psychological than practical, due to the lack of Northern ships, but it did serve to deter European acceptance of the South as a separate nation ue to the fact that they could not trade with them.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /imagearchive/his3487/kuver/civil.html (926 words)

	CP Article
		The Union East Gulf Blockading Squadron and the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron were initiated in late 1861 for this purpose, and were quite effective in eliminating most Florida overseas trade.
		Blockade running, however, became quite a profitable venture for a few native Floridians familiar with the changing tides and narrow and shallow inlets connecting with inland waterways.
		The few that were captured by the Union blockade became prizes of war; 299 such cases were adjudicated during the war in the United States District Court at Key West.
	www.jlkstamps.com /csa/archives/florida.htm (1138 words)

	The Blockade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A major part of Union Gen. Winfield Scott's war strategy was to blockade the Southern coast and prevent any trade from entering or leaving Southern ports.
		When President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the blockade of Southern ports on April 19, 1861, there was, in fact, very little that the North could do to prevent Southern trade.
		The South's 3,549 miles of coast, with 180 possible places for ships to enter, made the Union blockade the largest such effort ever attempted by any nation.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /ShipsBlockadesAndRaiders/theblockade1.html (334 words)

	Propaganda In The Civil War
		It was urged that the blockade hurt both the South and Europe and was therefore a major grievance, since by the Southern interpretation it was illegal.
		Protesting against international recognition of a blockade that guarded "seven ports" over an extent of three thousand miles of coast with "189 openings, he sharply criticized the "contradictory" statements of the British foreign office on the matter, suggesting that Britain had "some unconfessed interest" in the continuance of the blockade.
		The full effect of the blockade is to be measured not merely in terms of the stoppage of blockade-runners, but even more in terms of the many large ships that did not even attempt to brave the blockading squadrons.
	www.civilwarhome.com /propaganda.htm (2312 words)

	The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 2)
		Blockade running until 1865 was a very profitable business and at least in the beginning was not extremely dangerous.
		By 1863, blockade running had developed into a fine art; the main reason being the profit factor: salt which sold for $6.50 a ton was worth $1,700 a ton at Richmond and coffee had jumped from $249 a ton to $5,500.
		In 1863 the Union blockade was beginning to make its presence felt; the odds of being caught were 1 in 4.
	www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn2.htm (1607 words)

	Adela
		British authorities strongly protested this action by the Union blockaders, demanding the release of the ship and of two bags of mail which the prize had been carrying.
		The Union case was strengthened by the fact that Adela's master removed the mail bags from the courthouse and destroyed their contents which was thereafter presumed to contain evidence of forbidden activity.
		This group of fighting Union sailors dispersed the Confederate forces as they were embarking and captured six of their seven boats, a large amount of equipment, and four of their men.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a2/adela.htm (1959 words)

	Columbiad Press Presents the Dramatic Story of a Union Warship, "Circle of Fire -- The Story of the USS ...
		The book details life aboard a Union warship, the long hours on watch, the natural hazards of the sea, dramatic engagements with enemy coastal fortifications and pursuits of elusive blockade-runners and Rebel commerce raiders.
		The narrative is complemented by many rare photos, maps and engravings of the vessel and the battles she fought in.
		This is his first book and is the fruit of several years’ research on the steamship Susquehanna and her part in the Union naval blockade of the Southern coast and the various actions the Susquehanna fought in.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/7/prweb409857.htm (513 words)

	Civil War Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By this point, Maffitt was additionally so weak from the effects of Yellow Fever, that he had to be carried by the crew to the ship’s deck to direct the day’s action.
		With repairs complete by January of 1863, it was time for the CSS Florida to again attempt a bold move and run the Union blockade a second time.
		As it neared the third Union ship, the Florida’s coal engines were fired, creating some confusion among the Union blockaders.
	groups.msn.com /CivilWarAlabama/cssfloridarunsblockade.msnw (909 words)

	\| Review \| The History Teacher, 36.2 \| The History Cooperative
		Essential to the success of the so-called Anaconda Plan, devised by Union general-in-chief General Winfield Scott in 1861, was the establishment a naval blockade in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico to restrict trade between the Confederacy and Europe.
		In early 1861, while the blockade was still fairly ineffective, Confederate President Jefferson Davis supported the Confederate Congress' decision to curtail all cotton shipments to Great Britain, believing that such action would force the Royal Navy to attack the blockading squadrons.
		The most well known of these, the CSS Virginia, was deployed in an attempt to break up the Union flotilla at the confluence of the James and Nansemond Rivers at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/36.2/br_20.html (712 words)

	CSATX5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Union blockade was initially effective along the East Coast of the United States and increased its effectiveness in the eastern Gulf of Mexico as the war progressed.
		In the first year of the war, the Union blockade was not a fact facing most Texas ports.
		The blockader took the West Florida as a prize, and General Butler was writing letters to Washington D. explaining his action.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/CSATX5.htm (1802 words)

	The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy
		Stationed at Fort Monroe was a fleet of Union warships whose job it was to maintain the blockade.
		The Confederate government realized that the Union blockade would cripple the South's ability to wage war.
		Because the Union navy was made up of entirely wooden ships, a single iron vessel could perhaps destroy the entire Union fleet at Fort Monroe.
	www.mariner.org /monitor/10_teacher/baylink_5.html (362 words)

	Police under fire over union blockade - National - www.theage.com.au
		The blockade by about 150 members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union occurred despite the company obtaining Supreme Court orders to end the industrial action.
		While this was understandable in the short term, he said, no more resources appeared even though the blockade continued until 8am yesterday and despite more phone calls to police as high as assistant commissioner level.
		AMWU state secretary Dave Oliver said yesterday the union gave an undertaking not to try to prevent the publication of The Sunday Age today.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/21/1077072891934.html?from=storyrhs (352 words)

	Preventing Diplomatic Recognition of the Confederacy
		When the Union did declare a blockade upon the rebel states in April 1861, however, it did not prompt the response expected from the Europeans.
		The blockade’s legal and political implications took on greater significance than its economic effects because it undermined Lincoln’s insistence that the war was merely an internal insurrection.
		Although international law stated that a blockade must be “physically effective” to be legally binding on neutral powers, the definition was ambiguous.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/time/cw/17609.htm (547 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Civil War Maps
		As the United States expanded westward, the issue of whether or not new states would be admitted to the Union as slave states or free states was at the center of political debates.
		The use of ships for battle, blockade, and transport was a major factor in the course of the Civil War.
		Throughout the war this blockade limited the ability of the South to stay well-supplied in its war against the industrialized North.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/cwmaps/history.html (1020 words)

	Anaconda Plan
		The battle lasted all day, and the Union army was on the brink of collapse when they were saved by the arrival of General Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio, who drove the tired Confederate army from the field.
		Fortunately for the Union, England did uphold the Union blockades, and it remained in effect for the rest of the war.
		It was because of the blockade that the Union was able to pick away at the Confederacy's coastal defenses.
	www.scarborough.k12.me.us /high/projects/civilwar/anaconda.htm (1420 words)

	The Local - Salad bar blockade continues to divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The third possibility is to weather the storm and adjust to life under a blockade.
		The unions in question were the Union of Commercial Workers, the Municipal Workers’ Union, the Transport Workers' Union and the Food Workers' Union.
		The Transport Workers' Union on the other hand has agreed to lend its active support to the blockade, calling on recycling company Renova AB not to handle refuse from the Wild'n Fresh Salad Bar.
	www.thelocal.se /5819/20061215 (717 words)

	Civil War Union Blockade of Galveston Harbor Texas in July 1861
		The U.S. Navy began a blockade of Galveston Harbor in July 1861, but the town remained in Confederate hands for the next 14 months.
		W.B. Renshaw, commanding the blockading ships in the Galveston Bay area, sent Harriet Lane into the harbor, flying a flag of truce.
		Four Union steamers, with a mortar boat in tow, entered the harbor and moved to the same area where Harriet Lane had anchored.
	americancivilwar.com /texas/galv.html (435 words)

	The Confederate Navy 1861-1865 (Part 1)
		Needless to say, the Union Navy could not hope to blockade a coastline some 3,600 miles long with what was on hand.
		The result of the battle was a tactical victory for the Union, because the Monitor had succeeded in protecting the remainder of the Union blockading fleet in the Norfolk Harbor area.
		It was late in the war before Mallory considered putting the blockade runners under the control of the navy and, until this was actually achieved (which it never was), the blockade runners would continue to be more interested in making fortunes for themselves than in aiding the Confederacy.
	www.magweb.com /sample/scamp/ca90csn1.htm (2647 words)

	Boston Globe / Union Blockade - Scot Lehigh 8-3-05
		State Representative Michael Moran was meeting with Richard Stutman, president of the Boston Teachers Union, and Robert Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO -- and Moran was telling Stutman that as a newly elected lawmaker serving Allston-Brighton, he wanted the impasse over the Thomas Gardner Elementary School's pilot school plans to end.
		Even though 24 of 29 faculty members at the Allston school had voted to become a pilot, in June of 2004, Stutman, exercising a provision in the contract, vetoed their carefully laid plans.
		In taking that myopic position, Stutman has also put his union in the position of blocking an innovation popular with parents and important to the community.
	www.ccebos.org /globe.lehigh.8.3.05.htm (766 words)

	GMT GAMES: For the People
		These PC Markers (in contravention of rule 11.3D), CAN be placed in blockade runner ports/ and or resource spaces devoid of Confederate SPs or forts (but may contain an Ironclad or Torpedoes), resulting in their immediate destruction.
		The SPs can be placed in any Union controlled space (all SPs placed in the same space) with a LOC in NJ, DE, PA or the space that contains the Union capital that does not contain Confederate SPs or forts.
		The Union player can build up his naval blockade, his ironclad fleet, fight draft riots, secure the Border States, and issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
	www.gmtgames.com /nnfp/ftp2_main2006.html (2627 words)

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