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22 - The Blockade

from Part II - Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Robert Browning Jr.
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

For centuries maritime powers have used blockades against enemies to weaken and isolate them by disrupting communications and limiting commerce. President Abraham Lincoln, hoping to obtain these same goals, announced his intention to blockade the southern states at the outbreak of the Civil War. He did this in two proclamations. The first he issued on April 19, 1861, which included all the coastal southern states from South Carolina to Texas. Eight days later he released the second, adding North Carolina and Virginia to the list.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 449 - 470
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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