Spoils of War
P.O.W.'s or Prisoners of War
The Anaconda Plan, which called for a naval blockade of the South, designed to strangle off their supplies to wage war
Richmond was captured on April 3rd, 1865 at 8 AM.
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.
he was never even captured he committed suicide
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.
Union General Benjamin Butler declared enslaved African American refugees as "contraband" based on the military necessity to undermine the Confederacy's labor force. By classifying them as captured war supplies, he aimed to prevent their return to enslavers and provide them protection, thereby advancing the Union's war efforts. This decision also signaled a shift in the Union's approach to slavery, recognizing the potential of enslaved individuals to contribute to the Union cause.