Keywords: blockade
Item 5877
Potato blockade, Fort Fairfield, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-03-27 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 5870
Potato blockade, Fort Fairfield, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-03-27 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.
Exhibit
War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor
Eager to deal with the "Sesech" [Secessionists], young deepwater sailor John Monroe Dillingham of Freeport enlisted in the U.S. Navy as soon as he returned from a long voyage in 1862. His letters and those of his family offer first-hand insight into how one individual viewed the war.
Site Page
"The Union blockades cut off the export of cotton which caused extreme rises in bids from English buyers."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861
"… of being detained in southern ports or running blockades to be destroyed at sea by Confederate gunboats."
