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It soon became obvious to the leaders of the Confederacy that the Union was blockading important seaports. These seaports were also Union candidates for invasion. To help protect their ports they called upon a West Point graduate who was an engineer. His name was Colonel Robert E. Lee. One of Lee's strategies for protecting the ports, especially ones that might be invaded and occupied by Union troops was to build "heavy duty" fortifications around them. He also had what was considered an innovative idea of placing canon fortifications to a point inward from the sea so that the canons from Union ships could not reach them. The Confederate artillery was set with long range canon to hit either blockading or invading Union ships.

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