. History of the American Civil War . ommissioned privateers. Very soon after the inauguration of Lincoln tlie proc-lamation of a blockade of the Southern ports was issued(p. 27). In the opinion of foreign nations this blockadewas effectually maintained. On its part, the Confederacy resorted to the authoriza-tion of privateers. Some of these sailed from American,some from English ports. A consideration of this portion of the naval transac-ciasswcation of tious Is therefore, perhaps, best conducteduavai affairs. -j^^ groupiug the varlous events under twoheads: 1st, those in relation to the bloc
. History of the American Civil War . ommissioned privateers. Very soon after the inauguration of Lincoln tlie proc-lamation of a blockade of the Southern ports was issued(p. 27). In the opinion of foreign nations this blockadewas effectually maintained. On its part, the Confederacy resorted to the authoriza-tion of privateers. Some of these sailed from American,some from English ports. A consideration of this portion of the naval transac-ciasswcation of tious Is therefore, perhaps, best conducteduavai affairs. -j^^ groupiug the varlous events under twoheads: 1st, those in relation to the blockade; 2d, thosein relation to privateers. Respecting the former, it is ex-pedient not to relate them in their strict order of occur-rence, but rather, viewing them in the aggregate, to give Chap. LIX.] A SOUTHERN NAVAL STATION NECESSARY. 481 precedence to the more important facts, arranging tlieotliers so that their mutual connection may be privateering operations may he more approj)riatelyconsidered in the next THE HARBOK OF POUT KOYAL. The blockade once established, it was found necessary,for its effective maintenance, to have a large Necessity of a i i , • , • i 11 i Southern naval naval statiou at somc point near the centreof the line. For the first time in history, agreat fleet of steam-ships had been employed for blockad-ing purposes, and, to enable it to keej) the sea withoutlong voyages for supplies and repairs, docks and machineshops near at hand were required. All kinds of storeswere demanded—munitions of w^ar, powder, shot, shell,provisions, medicines, coal, fresh meats, ice, fresh - ships, in a continuous line^ were passing fromII.—H II 482 ^^^^^ I^^l^T ROYAL EXPEDITION. [Sect. XII. point to point. Their task Avoiild be rendered less oner-ous by tlie establishment of a central de])6t. The seizureof Ilatteras, which, as we shall presently see, had beenmade, did not meet these requisitions. It merely shuta gate to exclude th
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