Effectiveness of the blockades and blockade runners during the Civil War.
Blockades and blockade runners featured prominently during the American civil war that commenced in 1861.
The Northern Union states under the authority of President Abraham Lincoln, imposed blockades as a strategy to hurt the southern states of the Confederacy.
The aim was to shutter the southern commerce, hence weakening their economy and consequently preventing them from fighting the unionists.
Discuss the effectiveness of the blockades and blockade runners during the Civil War.
