When I was in Junior High learning about the Civil War, the first time I heard the "anaconda plan" it made absolutely no sense to me. Weren't the vast majority of all the battles fought on land? How are you going to take the land with Navy ships? Don't you need an Army?
The South seemingly had enough guns and soldiers to put up quite a fight, so I wasn't getting the purpose of the blockade. What was it blockading that mattered to the armies fighting on the land?
Took me years to understand it's value, and now that I understand it, I realize that it was absolutely the most important thing that could have been done.
It stopped European countries from making a profit through their natural trade with the South. Without that blockade, European merchants and shipping would have made greatly increased profits over what they had been making with New York, and it would have given their governments incentive to interdict on the side of the South.
By stopping those profits, Lincoln kept the Europeans from having a reason to side with the South.
Once European trade had been normalized with the South, it would have been over for the North. Lincoln's wealthy backers in New York would have been seriously hurt if not bankrupted by the loss of all that trade.
The War was over that trade. It was over that economic shift which would have occurred if the South had been able to establish significant low tariff trade with Europe. Stopping that commercial trade was absolutely essential to winning the war.
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“The South seemingly had enough guns and soldiers to put up quite a fight, so I wasn’t getting the purpose of the blockade. What was it blockading that mattered to the armies fighting on the land?”
The Confederacy imported 500,000 Enfield pattern rifle muskets from England and an additional 200,000 long arms from other European countries . Fifteen percent of Confederate Army field artillery were imported from Europe. The South had to import all of the chloroform and ether used by Confederate army doctors. In 1864, they even had to start importing uniforms for the Army. By 1865
20% of the Confederate Army was still equipped with 69. cal smoothbore muskets because the Confederacy could manufacture or import enough rifle muskets for its army.
And it was Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan also included occupying the Mississippi and denying the Confederacy the use of their best port New Orleans.
New Orleans was captured early on, that was a fatal blow.
The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED “STATES” OF AMERICA
“No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom Service or Labour may be due.”
The treacherous bastard ABOLITIONISTs and the GODDAMNED REPUBLICAN PARTY have brought us to the point of ruin, now come the WASHINGTONIANS IN OUR FACE STOMPING US UNDER THEIR BOOT.
Time to SEND IN THE MARINES, ICE, CBP, AND DHS “SPECIAL FORCES” to RESTORE OUR REPUBLIC.
ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE
STATE OF EMERGENCY, DIRECT ACTION BY POTUS, WASHINGTON LOCKED DOWN AND STRIPPED OF ALL POWER.
Trump needs to prepare his supporters.
It’s on.