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It was essential that the Union needed to improve its navy in order to have success against the Confederacy. Shipyards, safe from any Confederate raids, undertook the task of adding warships to the navy early in the US Civil War. For example, The North had forty two commissioned ships in March of 1861. By July the number increased to eighty two.By the end of 1861 the North had 264 commissioned ships.

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