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Statistics on Naval Blockage-Success and Failure

"The ratio of safe arrivals to captures during 1861 had been nine to one. In 1862 it was seven to one; in 1863 about four to one. In 1864 it would be three to one, and by 1865, only one to one. This is an average for the war of six to one."

p103-104 Ploughshares into Swords. Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance. Frank E. Vandiver. 1952.
Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy, p. 290 Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America. Chicago, 1931.

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