The Union navy was mostly used to blockade principal southern ports
The blockade was more effective toward the end of the war.
The North had a big enough navy to blockade the Southern ports and starve the Confederacy of imports.
Because the Union had blockaded the Southern ports, and very few imports were able to get through.
The north wanted to block there ports, take control of the mississippi river and take the capitol, richmond VA. The south just wanted to defend the north and hope that they would lose interest.
The Naval blockade of Southern ports.
The Union Navy blockaded them
They were blockaded, generally successfully from the North's point of view.
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The Union navy was mostly used to blockade principal southern ports
The blockage was more effective toward the end of the war.
During the Civil War, the goals for the Union were to create a naval blockade on southern ports, gain control of the Mississippi River, and take over the Confederates capitol of Richmond, Virginia.
The blockade was more effective toward the end of the war.
The blockage was more effective toward the end of the war.
The cities of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk are two northern Russian ports in the Barents Sea. These ports were heavily utilized during the North Russia Intervention during the Russian Civil War.
A highly successful tactic that prevented war supplies reaching the Confederacy.
Blockading the Southern ports.