327 Members (3.66)
On This Page
Description
The Civil War at sea was essentially a battle over commerce vital to the Confederate States.Tags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
144+ Works 10,229 Members
William C. Davis is a retired history professor who taught at Virginia Tech. An acclaimed expert on the Civil War, he has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; the American Battlefield Trust; the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia; the National Park Service; and show more the Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize nominating juries. show less
2,329+ Works 90,888 Members
All Editions
Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Blockade: Runners and Raiders
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Charles Francis Adams; Henry Adams; Lucien Arman; Francis H. Baker; Thomas Baker; Henry H. Bell (show all 116); Judah P. Benjamin; Montgomery Blair; Homer C. Blake; Mathew Brady; John Brooke; John M. Browne; Franklin Buchanan; James D. Bulloch (as James Dunwoody Bulloch); Tom Burroughs; Cornelius Bushnell; Benjamin F. Butler; Robert Porrett Collier; Napoleon Collins; James W. Cooke; William B. Cushing; Charles H. Davis; Jefferson Davis; William Dayton; Edwin de Leon; John Downes; Percival Drayton; Thomas F. Drayton; Thomas H. Dudley; Samuel Francis Du Pont; John Ericsson; Emile Erlanger; James Ferguson; Charles W. Flusser; Gustavus Vasa Fox; Jacob Garrick; William Ewart Gladstone; Louis Goldsborough; John Harding; Auguste Havas; Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden; Winslow Homer; Henry Hotze; Andrew Johnson; Catesby ap Roger Jones (as Catesby Jones); Benito Juárez; William Keeler; John McIntosh Kell; Robert E. Lee; Samuel Phillips Lee; Abraham Lincoln; Stephan S. Lisovski; David Herbert Llewellyn; John Low; James Russell Lowell; Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons; George B. McClellan; John Newland Maffitt; Stephen R. Mallory; Édouard Manet; Ambrose Dudley Mann; John Marston; James M. Mason; Benjamin Moran; Charles D. Morgan; James Morgan; Charles Morris; George Morris; Napoleon III; James H. North; Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; Hiram Paulding; Garrett J. Pendergast; William Perry; Francis Pettit-Smith; Dinwiddie Phillips; Ignatius Pollaky; David Dixon Porter; John Porter; H. Ashton Ramsay (Chief Engineer, Merrimac, as H. A. Ramsey); Henry Reaney; Pierre A. Rost; John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; Henry Shelton Sanford; Winfield Scott; John E. Seabrook; Raphael Semmes; William Henry Seward; Thomas W. Sherman; John Slidell; A. B. Smith; Joseph Smith; Joseph Smith, Jr.; Melancton Smith; William W. Smith; Horatio J. Sprague; Edwin M. Stanton; Charles Ellery Stedman; Joseph W. Steele; Silas H. Stringham; Charles Sumner; Thomas Taylor; George Thompson; James Thompson; Robert Toombs; George Alfred Trenholm; Henry Van Brunt; James I. Waddell (as Captain James Iredell Waddell); Gideon Welles; Charles Wilkes; John Wilkinson; William Williamson; John A. Winslow; John Taylor Wood; John Worden; William Lowndes Yancey
- Important places
- Azores, Portugal; Bahamas; Bahia, Brazil; Beaufort, North Carolina, USA; Bering Sea; Bermuda (show all 90); Bristol, England, UK; Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA; Cape Fear River, North Carolina, USA; Cap de la Hague, Normandy, France (as Cape of the Hague); Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA; Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Caribbean Region; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Cherbourg, Manche, Normandy, France; Continental Iron Works, Brooklyn, New York, USA; Craney Island, Virginia, USA; DeLameter Iron Works, New York, New York, USA; Edisto Island, South Carolina, USA; Elizabeth River, North Carolina, USA; English Channel; Europe; Folly Island, South Carolina, USA; Fort Beauregard, South Carolina, USA; Fort Caswell, North Carolina, USA; Fort Clark, North Carolina, USA; Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA; Fort Hatteras, North Carolina, USA; Fort Macon, North Carolina, USA; Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA; Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA; Fort Pulaski, Georgia, USA; Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Fort Walker, South Carolina, USA (later renamed Fort Welles, South Carolina, USA); Fort Warren, Massachusetts, USA; France; Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina, USA; Galveston, Texas, USA; Georgetown, South Carolina, USA; Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, USA; Great Bahama Bank, Bahama Banks; Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK; Hampton, Virginia, USA; Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA; Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, USA; Havana, Cuba; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA; James River, Virginia, USA; Key West, Florida, USA; Liverpool, England, UK; London, England, UK; Madeira, Portugal; Mediterranean Sea; Mexico; Mobile, Alabama, USA; Morris Island, South Carolina, USA; Nansemond River, Virginia, USA; Nassau, Bahamas; New Bern, North Carolina, USA; New Hampshire, USA (troops from); New Inlet, North Carolina, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Newport News, Virginia, USA; Niagara Falls; Norfolk, Virginia, USA; Sea of Okhotsk; Old Bahama Channel; Otter Island, South Carolina, USA; Pensacola, Florida, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Port Royal, South Carolina, USA; Portsmouth, Virginia, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA; Russia; Saldanha Bay, South Africa; San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Bay, California, USA; Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA; Sewell's Point, Virginia, USA; Ship Island, USA; Singapore; Smith Island, North Carolina, USA; Stono River, South Carolina, USA; Terceira Island, Azores; Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia, USA; Wassaw Sound, Georgia, USA; Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
- Important events
- Crimean War (1853 | 1856); American Civil War (1861 | 1865); First Battle of Bull Run (1861-07-21); Trent Affair (1861-11-08); Second Battle of Bull Run (1862-08-28 | 1862-08-30); Battle of Antietam (1862-09-17) (show all 11); Emancipation Proclamation (1862-09-22 | 1863-01-01); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Battle of Gettysburg (1863-07-01 | 1863-07-03); Battle of Cherbourg (1864-06-19); Austro-Prussian War (1866)
- First words
- "It is essentially necessary that the Navy should at this time put forth all its strength and demonstrate to the country and to foreign powers its usefulness and capability in protecting and supporting the Government and t... (show all)he Union."
- Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, September 18, 1861
The United States and the Confederate States faced many urgent and perplexing problems when, with the surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, they suddenly found themselves at war and utterly unprepared to fight. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In short, it was succor only, not sustenance, that filtered through the blockade to the beleaguered Confederacy. And even though the War was decided on the battlefield, not the blockade line, it surely would have been a different war had the United States Navy not stood silent guard along the Southern coasts.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 327
- Popularity
- 97,179
- Rating
- (3.66)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
