how do you get around a blockade?
Blockade runners of the American Civil War
these ships, many of them built in British ship yards and specially designed for speed, had to cruise undetected, usually at night. The typical blockade runners were privately owned vessels often operating with a letter of marque issued by the Confederate States of America. If spotted, the blockade runners would attempt to outmaneuver or simply outrun any Union ships on blockade patrol, very often successfully.
The North refused to recognize either the sovereignty of the Confederacy or its right to issue letters of marque and, two days later, on April 19, [1861] Lincoln issued a second proclamation, threatening the Confederacy with a blockade along its coastlines.This was part of General Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan, with the blockade to extend along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico coastlines and up into the lower Mississippi River. Lincoln's proclamation said that any actions against the Union by crews of ships acting under a Confederate letter of marque would be treated as piracy, subject to prosecution, which usually called for the death penalty.Â
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_runners_of_the_American_Civil_War
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