What were the results of Union blockades in the US Civil War?

Answer 1

The Union blockades were generally effective. Blockade runners that made it through were highly rewarded, but the risks were very high. Many privateers were able to slop past the Union blockaders.

Answer 2

Rapidly rising food prices across the South

The Confederates were unable to import the war supplies they couldn't manufacture themselves, having no industrial base.

Answer 3

Military historians have written that the Union's blockade was not that effective. Privateers ran through the blockades. These is no evidence that the blockade strategy determined the outcome of the US Civil War. A perfect example of this was at Vicksburg. After the siege on Vicksburg succeeded, General Grant reported that he captured 60,000 British rifles there.

Answer 4

Modern day historians have reexamined the effects of the Union's Civil War blockading efforts. Most come to the following conclusions:1.The Union failed to interdict the flow of commerce in products which market forces and the Confederate government valued the most;

2. The Confederacy did lose the US Civil War due to the Union blockade, although without it, the South would have been better off for its absence;

3. The blockade was to loose to be as effective as a modern day blockade can be based on the poor communications available to ships at sea in 1861 to 1865; and

4. By the time the Union had captured most of its port targets, the South's industrial efforts made imports less important and it had already obtained non-perishable supplies such as rifles. When Vicksburg was captured in 1863, General Grant reported that he confiscated over 60,000 imported rifles.

Answer 5

caused inflation and shortages in the South, especially for manufactured goods.

Answer 6

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