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The southern states were the Confederacy. All the states from Virginia down to Texas, Florida, Mississippi etc. were in the Confederacy.
It closed a major port for the blockade-runners, and diminished Southern control over the Mississippi.
Blocking the Confederate coast was the first part of the Unions 'Anaconda Plan', which also involved the invasion from the North and the taking/controlling of the Mississippi River. The plan was called the Anaconda Plan because it "strangled" the Southern Economy and Military. The North took the Mississippi to cut the Southwestern States of the Confederacy off from the rest of the Confederate States (Texas and the Oklahoma/New Mexico Territories), and to gain control of the Southerners 2nd most important port, New Orleans. The invasion from the North was to exhaust the Southern Armies (of-course). And Blockading the South was to prevent the trade of cotton (the staple product in the South) and other goods, crippling the Southern economy. Because of the blockade the South had almost no food and their currency was worth next to nothing.
It didn't split the Confederacy in two. It was a punitive raid of destruction that simply helped to destroy the Southern economy and starve the Confederate armies in the field. Splitting the Confederacy in two is what Grant (and Sherman) achieved earlier in the Siege of Vicksburg, which ended with the liberation of the Mississippi.
The states are: Florida, Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee.
blockading southern ports and cutting the confederacy in two by controlling the mississippi.
The Anaconda plan
The southern states were the Confederacy. All the states from Virginia down to Texas, Florida, Mississippi etc. were in the Confederacy.
Yes, Mississippi was part of the Confederacy.
On January 9, 1861 Mississippi became the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States of America. On February 4, 1861 it joined with six other southern states to form the Confederacy.
The loss at Vicksburg was harmful to the confederacy because they had lost port Hudson and the Southern stronghold on the Mississippi.
The seizure of Vicksburg closed the Mississippi to Southern traffic, cutting the Confederacy in two.
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On January 9, 1861 Mississippi became the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States of America. On February 4, 1861 it joined with six other southern states to form the Confederacy.
Mississippi was a Confederate state during the Civil War. On January 9, 1861 Mississippi became the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States of America. On February 4, 1861 it joined with six other southern states to form the Confederacy.
The one and only president of the Confederacy was born in Kentucky, but also lived in Louisiana and Mississippi. He was serving as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi when Southern states began seceding from the Union in 1860 and 1861.
It closed a major port for the blockade-runners, and diminished Southern control over the Mississippi.