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On April 19, 1861, only six days after the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln declared a naval blockade on the ports of all the states involved in the Southern rebellion. Secondary objectives included the protection of all US overseas commerce and the support of Union land campaigns.Since the South had no navy the protection of US commerce was at least a prediction that such commerce may be placed in danger bu Rebel states.

The blockade has often been scrutinized as a move that in a defacto manner declared by international laws , made the Confederacy a foreign power. Not much was made of this at the time.

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