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	Union blockade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The Gulf Blockading Squadron was a squadron of the United States Navy in the early part of the American Civil War.
		The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron was based at Hampton Roads, Virginia and was tasked with coverage of Virginia and North Carolina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_Blockading_Squadron (1255 words)

	USS Brooklyn (1858) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With repairs completed, she was recommissioned 14 April 1864 and rejoined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
		While Brooklyn was attached to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron she captured four prizes and assisted in the capture of eight others.
		She served with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron from October 1864 until January 1865.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /USS_Brooklyn_%281858%29 (316 words)

	Encyclopedia: David Farragut
		In command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, with his flag in USS Hartford, in April 1862 he ran past Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip and the Chalmette, Louisiana, batteries to take the city and port of New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 29 that year, a decisive event in the war.
		Admiral Farragut's last active service was in command of the European Squadron, with the screw frigate Franklin as his flagship, and he died at the age of 69 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
		January 1862, commanded USS Hartford and the West Gulf blockading squadron of 17 vessels.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/David-Farragut (3358 words)

	USS Susquehanna (1847) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was launched on 5 April 1850; and was commissioned on 24 December 1850, Captain John H. Aulick in command.
		Late in May, the double-ender was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and she carried dispatches for Flag Officer David Farragut to the Gulf of Mexico.
		Recommissioned on 20 July 1864, Susquehanna was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and participated in the abortive attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, on Christmas Eve 1864.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Susquehanna_%281847%29 (919 words)

	Blockade Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the beginning of the blockade, it was correctly surmised that the character of the coast and the nature of the blockade would be different in different regions.
		Upon the resignation of Flag Officer Silas Stringham, the commander of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the Atlantic Blockading Squadron was further divided into the North and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons (NABS and SABS), with the new commanders appointed on 18 September 1861.
		The East Gulf Blockading Squadron (EGBS) continued to be based at Key West, and was responsible for the Florida coast from Cape Canaveral to Pensacola, Florida.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~jenkins/ironclads/organize.htm (588 words)

	Encyclopedia: CSS Arkansas
		During this time the Federal Navy had undertaken a naval blockade of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi with a large force made up of a squadron of United States Navy ships that had come up from the Gulf of Mexico and a flotilla of United States Army rams from upriver.
		Admiral David Farragut was in overall command of the blockading force which consisted of at least 10 ships of war, 6 ironclads, and 7 rams.
		After this defeat the Federal commanders decided to end the blockade of Vicksburg for the time being with the lower fleet heading south towards New Orleans, Louisiana and the upper fleet back towards St.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/CSS-Arkansas (1343 words)

	Fort Jackson
		In December 1861 Farragut was assigned command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
		A key element called for a naval blockade of the South, which was the only coherent and successful aspect of Union strategy early in the war.
		Sealing off the Confederate Gulf coast between Pensacola and the mouth of the Rio Grande was an enormous task.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /photosaugust/fort_jackson.htm (1332 words)

	Maria A
		Assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, Maria A.
		In West Pass early in 1862, she participated in the Union occupation of Pensacola 10 May. She was ordered to Santa Rosa Island 5 September to blockade East Pass, to the mouth of the Mississippi in early November, and to Horn Island Pass in late November.
		She removed obstructions in Blakely Channel and Spanish River, near Mobile, in April 1865 and remained in the gulf squadron after its cutback in October.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m4/maria_a_wood.htm (189 words)

	Preston
		Ordered to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear Admiral D. Porter, he participated in the attacks on Fort Fisher 24–25 December 1864 and 13 January 1865.
		The first Preston, a twin screw British blockade runner named Annie, was captured off New Inlet, N.C., 31 October 1864 by Wilderness and Niphon; purchased by the Navy from the New York Prize Court in December 1864; renamed Preston 2 February 1865; and commissioned 6 February 1865, Acting Volunteer Lt. J.
		Assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, Preston departed New York 16 February and arrived at New Orleans 9 March.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p11/preston-i.htm (249 words)

	USS Pinola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She departed for the Gulf of Mexico early in February, and on 6 March 1862 she made her first capture, schooner Cora with 208 bales of cotton.
		After the opening of the Mississippi she was actively engaged in the blockade off Mobile and other ports in the Gulf of Mexico.
		On 2 February 1865, she captured schooner Ben Willis with a cargo of 167 bales of cotton, and on the 18th she took and destroyed the armed schooner Anna Dale as she lay tied to a wharf at Pass Cavallo.
	www.datasync.com /~bouchard/civilwar/pinola.htm (257 words)

	USS Stockdale
		Since rumors were then circulating that Confederate ironclads were about to attempt to recapture New Orleans, Stockdale steamed down the Mississippi to reinforce Admiral Farragut's ships in defending that strategic city, and she served in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron through the end of the Civil War.
		On 8 December, Stockdale and J. Jackson captured schooner Medora in Mississippi Sound as the blockade runner was attempting to slip to sea laden with cotton.
		After the Civil War ended, Stockdale continued to operate in the Gulf of Mexico until she was decommissioned on 24 August 1866 at New Orleans.
	www.multied.com /navy/Steamer/stockdale.html (530 words)

	USS Monongahela (1862) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Initially assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron, Monongahela sailed instead to reinforce Rear Admiral David G. Farragut’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron off Mobile, Alabama, remaining on duty off that port until ordered to attempt to run past Confederate batteries on the Mississippi at Port Hudson, Louisians, on the night of 14 to 15 March 1863.
		Monongahela remained on duty with the West Gulf Squadron until the end of the Civil War, and then was assigned to the West Indies Squadron.
		While on service with the West Indies Squadron, the warship had the unique experience of being landed high and dry almost a mile inland from the shoreline when a tidal wave struck Frederikstad, St. Croix, 18 November 1867.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/USS-Monongahela-(1862).htm (939 words)

	Farragut, David Glasgow. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Then the Dept. of the Navy gave him command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, with orders to ascend the Mississippi River and reduce New Orleans.
		Farragut had succeeded in stifling Confederate blockade-running in the Gulf of Mexico, except at its chief source, Mobile, and he moved on that port in 1864.
		Mobile Bay was strongly defended by forts Gaines and Morgan, a double row of torpedoes (mines), and a Confederate flotilla commanded by Franklin Buchanan.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fa/Farragut.html (509 words)

	Winfield Scott Schley, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		Commanded USS Thetis and Greely Expedition, 1884, rescued Lieutenant Greely and 6 survivors at Cape Sabine, for which was awarded gold watch and vote of thanks of the Maryland legislature and a gold medal from Masssachusetts Humane Society.
		Commanded Essex in the Brazil Squadron in 1876-79 and then was a lighthouse inspector in Boston, 1879-83.
		The principal exception was the cruiser Brooklyn, Schley's flagship, which unaccountably turned in direction opposite that of the rest of squadron, causing considerable confusion and narrowly escaping collision with the Texas.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /schley.htm (1088 words)

	West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay by Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The author traces the evolution of the battle from the time Farragut took command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in February 1862 until the battle was fought on 5 August 1864.
		Friend serves on the board of the CSS Alabama Association, an organization that funds the retrieval of artifacts from that famous warship, and on the Alabama Historical Commission, and has written previously about the battle of Mobile Bay in Great American Naval Battles.
		Here he provides a book-length account of the bloodiest naval battle of the Civil War, tracing its evolution from the point at which Adm. David Farragut assumed command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in February, 1862, through the battle itself on August 5, 1864, and the weeks immediately after.
	www.cw-book-news.com /release%20info/04-02/mobile.html (325 words)

	Stockdale
		On 16 May 1864, a landing party from the tinclad gunboat was fired ution by Confederate cavalry at the mouth of the Tchefuncta River.
		Jackson captured schooner Medora in Mississippi Sound as the blockade runner was attempting to slip to sea laden with cotton.
		After the Civil War ended, Stockdale continued to operate in the Gulf of Mexico until she was decommissioned on 24 August 1865 at New Orleans.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s18/stockdale-i.htm (629 words)

	Denbigh Day-by-Day
		While Denbigh was running the Federal blockade into Mobile and Galveston, the rest of the American nation was entering the final stage of its most tragic and costly conflict.
		The Union blockading squadron off the port had been given urgent orders to prevent Lavinia's escape, and had set up special signals to be given if she was detected running out.
		The blockade runner, which had served with the U.S. Navy before being captured by the Confederates off Louisiana, is a total loss.
	nautarch.tamu.edu /projects/denbigh/Daybyday.htm (1962 words)

	From Dictionary of American Fighting Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bienville reported to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and took part in the capture of Port Royal, S. (7 November 1861).
		Bienville captured 12 blockade runners (sharing one with Mohican) and forced the destruction of two others.
		During 1863-65 she served with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron taking part in the Battle of Mobile Bay (5 August 1864) and blockading Galveston, Tex. She captured one blockade runner while off Galveston.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/steamers/bienvell.htm (135 words)

	Grant's Canal
		In the summer of 1862, as the ships of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut bombarded the Vicksburg river defenses, a 3,000-man infantry brigade commanded by Brig.
		By July 24, work on the canal stopped and Williams's weary soldiers accompanied the West Gulf Blockading Squadron as Farragut withdrew to safer water.
		The small tract was donated to the National Park Service by local land owners working in conjunction with The Conservation Fund and became part of the Vicksburg National Military Park in 1990.
	www.nps.gov /vick/grntcanl/grantsc.htm (532 words)

	blockading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tyre being blockaded by the Venetian fleet and beseiged by Crusader knighthood, William of Tyre
		One of the first measures imposed by the North on the South during the War was to establish a blockade.
		This book joins the authors previous bookon the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and presumably there is at least one more book to come in the series.
	blockading.idoneos.com (971 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the flotilla formed by the end of February, it sailed to join the West Gulf Blockading Squadron for the Mississippi River operations specifically aimed at the capture of New Orleans.
		Assigned to the blockading forces off the coast of Texas, the schooner's next action, at Sabine Pass, was against Confederate batteries near Sabine City.
		For the next 18 months, HENRY JANES performed blockade and gunfire duties at various stations of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/sail/h_janes.txt (486 words)

	Samuel Phillips Lee, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		In 1862, he was transferred to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and in April commanded the Corvette USS Oneida in the attacks under Flag Officr David G. Farragut on Fort Jackson and Fort St.
		In addition to blockade work, in which more than 50 blockade runners were captured or destroyed, his squadron supported a great many Army operations on shore, including General Benjamin Butler's army at Bermuda Hundres and movements on the James River.
		In October 1864, he was succeeded by Admiral David Dixon Porter and placed in command of the Mississippi Squadron, which provided valuable support on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers to General George H. Thomas in his campaigns against General John B. Hood.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.com /sphlee.htm (522 words)

	ipedia.com: David Farragut Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When one ship struck a mine the others began to pull back, but then Farragut shouted out the order, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" The bulk of the fleet succeded in entering the bay, and the heroic quote became famous.
		His country honored its great sailor by creating for him the rank of rear admiral on July 16, 1862, a rank never before used in the US Navy.
		Numerous destroyers have since been named USS Farragut in his honor, and he has been depicted on US postage stamps twice; first on the $1 stamp of 1903, and then on a 32c stamp in 1995.
	www.ipedia.com /david_farragut.html (442 words)

	Amphibious Warfare: Nineteenth Century
		With the fall of New Orleans to Union forces in 1862, the port of Mobile, Alabama became the last major port on the Gulf of Mexico open to Confederate blockade running.
		Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, commander of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, wanted to commence operations against Mobile soon after New Orleans' capitulation, but operations on the Mississippi River and in west Texas kept his forces occupied until early 1864.
		When Farragut was able to turn his attention to Mobile again, his experience in those areas made him convinced that only a joint naval and ground expedition could succeed in neutralizing the port's defenses.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopB10.htm (1068 words)

	From Dictionary of American Fighting Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first Brooklyn was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1858 by Jacob A. Westervelt and Son, New York, N. Y., and commissioned 26 January 1859, Captain D. Farragut in command.
		Brooklyn served with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron from 1861 until 1864, participating in action at Head of Passes, Mississippi River (15 February 1862); attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and in the capture of New Orleans (24 April); bombardment of Grand Gulf Miss.
		She took part in the capture of Mobile, Ala., and the combined attack on Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay (9-23 August 1864).
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/sloops/brooklyn.htm (342 words)

	USS Brooklyn
		Brooklyn served with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron from 1861 until 1864, participating in action at Head of Passes, Mississippi River (15 February 1862); attacks on Forts Jackson and St.Philip, and in the capture of New Orleans (24 April); bombardment of Grand Gulf, Miss.
		While Brook1yn was attached to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron she captured four prizes and assisted in the capture of eight others.
		During this time she participated in the attacks on Fort Fisher, N. C (23 24 December 1864 and 1~15 January 1865).
	www.navyhistory.com /CWNavy/Brooklyn.html (333 words)

	Articles - Union blockade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under the Declaration of Paris, 1856, international law held that a blockade must be (1) formally proclaimed, (2) promptly established, (3) enforced, and (4) effective, in order to be legal.[5]
		Britain's proclamation of neutrality was consistent with the position of the Lincoln Administration under international law - the Confederates were belligerents - giving them the right to obtain loans and buy arms from neutral powers - and giving the British the formal right to discuss openly which side, if any, to support.[6]
		Early battles in support of the blockade included the Blockade of Chesapeake Bay[11], from May to June, 1861, and the Blockade of the Carolina Coast, August-December 1861.[12]
	www.wathcesa.com /articles/Union_blockade (1034 words)

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