The West Gulf Blockade, 1861-1865: An Evaluation
Description:
This investigation resulted from a pilot research paper prepared in conjunction with a graduate course on the Civil War. This study suggested that the Federal blockade of the Confederacy may not have contributed significantly to its defeat. Traditionally, historians had assumed that the Union's Anaconda Plan had effectively strangled the Confederacy. Recent studies which compared the statistics of ships captured to successful infractions of the blockade had somewhat revised these views. While …
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Date:
May 1974
Creator:
Glover, Robert W.
Partner:
UNT Libraries