A Civil War personal narrative that presents to us from the pen of a principal actor the most complete account we have of a great blockade in the days of steam.

In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater i

One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News

On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succ

Perhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the dura