During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended some 3,500 miles along the Atlantic and Gulf of
Advance Civil War blockade-runner
Blockade-runner mail to New Orleans via Nassau, Bahamas, stamped incoming ship 10-cents postage due
CSS Atlanta, converted from a blockade runner
A Confederate blockade runner at anchor at St. George's, Bermuda
Union blockade
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The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.
Blockade runners of the American Civil War
…During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended some 3,500 miles (5,600 km) along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and the lower Mississippi…
Scott's great snake, J. B. Elliot
The Confederate blockade runner SS Banshee in 1863
Blockade runner SS A.D. Vance, captured by the Union Navy and recommissioned as Advance
CSS David engaging New Ironsides on 5 October 1863, during the blockade of Charleston