On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline.
Boats worked their wa.
As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers.
Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs.
What it did have--and what England and other foreign countries wanted--was cotton and tobacco.
The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict.
On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline