From the October 3, 2021, Wilmington (North Carolina) Star-News "Wilmington's Cape Fear Civil War Round Table, discuss the Union blockade: by Cheryl M. Whitaker.
Robert M. Browning, Jr., will be the guest speaker at the Cape Fear Civil War Round Table Thursday, October 14 at the Harbor United Methodist Church. His topic will be the Union blockade during the Civil War.
He is the retired historian of the Coast Guard and an acknowledged expert on the blockade. His topic will be "How Did Naval Power Contribute to the Winning of the War."
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a blockade on the 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline on April 19, 1861, soon after the fall of Fort Sumter.
The role of the U.S. Navy in the war was crucial to Union victory. When the blockade was declared, there were only three warships ready for duty to maintain that blockade, but by the end of the war, the Navy had grown in size to671 ships of all sizes and types from the revolutionary new monitor ironclads to small shallow draft wooden gunboats.
--Old B-Runner
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