The Union navy was mostly used to blockade principal southern ports
The blockade was more effective toward the end of the war.
Blockade
Blockade
Blockade the confederate coast
The Naval blockade
Union naval blockade
The Union navy was mostly used to blockade principal southern ports
The blockade was more effective toward the end of the war.
The ships were used as a blockade, so the confederate could not leave and retreat from the southern states.
Blockade
The civil war blockade was when the Navy covered the Southern's coast so that no one could get through. The South could not trade and they could not get supplise or food or even money.
The Union had more ships than the Confederacy. The greatest amount of these were used on blockade duty.
Blockade
The blockade prevented needed supplies from coming in, and cotton from going out
194 Ships in the blockade fleet.
The blockade stopped the south from importing and exporting goods to other areas.