P.O.W.'s or Prisoners of War
Richmond was captured on April 3rd, 1865 at 8 AM.
The Anaconda Plan, which called for a naval blockade of the South, designed to strangle off their supplies to wage war
he was never even captured he committed suicide
Moving men and supplies at unprecedented speed. And the South did not have a rail network to match it. The American Civil War was called the first railroad war.
contraband
war supplies were called rations or goods by the soilders
The first Confederate city captured by the Union Army was New Orleans in 1862. New Orleans was the largest port city in the Confederacy. By the end of the war, the Union had also captured Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington in order to deprive the Confederacy of supplies.
P.O.W.'s or Prisoners of War
He was a captured and tortured by the Vietnamese during the Vietnamese War.
He would not have to return them to slave holders in the south
It was called "The Berlin Airlift."
no Antonia Willard was not captured in the war. she was a confederate spy in the civil war
Because one cannot fight a war without supplies. No supplies=no war.
It was an excuse for not returning the slaves to their owners, and thereby weakening the Southern economy.
It was an excuse for not returning the slaves to their owners, and thereby weakening the Southern economy.
the captured where tortured and killed