Union Blockade of GA's Coast

   This was the battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia. The Union Blockade was a crucial part of the Union strategy to suppress the state during the Civil War. Union planned to halt any trade and prevent the flow of supplies to the Confederates. It ran from 1861 to 1865. U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline took a long time to form, but by early 1862 the Union navy had positioned a serviceable fleet off the coast of the South's most prominent Confederate ports. On April 19, 1861, the blockade finally began. In Georgia, Union strategy centered on Savannah, the state's most significant port city, and the other eleven of the most important ports of the Confederates were shut down. The plan was a huge success and victory was an easy gain to the Union.