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Union blockade of the Confederacy
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Union_blockade_of_the_Confederacy
GPTKB entity
Statements (46)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:brick
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Anaconda_Plan
gptkbp:commander
gptkb:David_Farragut
gptkb:David_Dixon_Porter
gptkb:Samuel_Francis_Du_Pont
gptkbp:conflict
gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:effect
economic hardship for the Confederacy
rise of blockade runners
severe shortages in the South
gptkbp:endDate
1865
gptkbp:enforcedBy
gptkb:South_Atlantic_Blockading_Squadron
gptkb:Atlantic_Blockading_Squadron
gptkb:East_Gulf_Blockading_Squadron
gptkb:West_Gulf_Blockading_Squadron
gptkb:North_Atlantic_Blockading_Squadron
gptkb:Gulf_Blockading_Squadron
Union Blockading Squadrons
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Union blockade of the Confederacy
gptkbp:implementedIn
gptkb:United_States_Navy
gptkbp:internationalResponse
Britain and France declared neutrality
no foreign recognition of Confederacy
gptkbp:legalBasis
gptkb:Proclamation_of_Blockade_Against_Southern_Ports
gptkbp:mainPortsBlocked
gptkb:New_Orleans
gptkb:Wilmington
gptkb:Charleston
gptkb:Savannah
gptkbp:notableBlockadeRunners
gptkb:CSS_Robert_E._Lee
CSS Advance
CSS Banshee
gptkbp:opposedBy
gptkb:Confederate_States_Navy
blockade runners
gptkbp:order
gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkbp:purpose
to prevent the export of cotton and the import of war supplies
gptkbp:relatedEvent
gptkb:Capture_of_New_Orleans
gptkb:Battle_of_Fort_Fisher
gptkb:Battle_of_Mobile_Bay
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:cotton_diplomacy
naval warfare
economic warfare
Union strategy in the Civil War
gptkbp:result
Union victory
gptkbp:significance
major factor in Confederate defeat
gptkbp:startDate
April 19, 1861
gptkbp:target
gptkb:Confederate_States_of_America
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Scott's_Great_Snake
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7