Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War Elisabeth Lambert Christopher L

Christopher L

Nineteen rare illustrations and fourteen specially commissioned operational maps enhance the text

Yale University

Marc Laidlaw

and received the Phillips Classical Greek Award at the University of Michigan

Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War Elisabeth Lambert Christopher LAuthor: Smith, Andrew F. Brand: St. Martin's Press Edition: First Edition Number Of Pages: 304 Release Date: 12 04 2011 Details: A historians new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry Confederacy In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while Union dinner tables groaned and