Breaking the Blockade
Ross, Charles D![Breaking the Blockade](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/341/34111118/CHSBZCOP0334111118.jpg)
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 succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have--and what England and other foreign countries wanted--was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding...