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- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
The fighting that had strategic significance starts with DuPont and the other Sherman overpowering the Confederates at Port Royal. That eased the cost to the US of blockading Savannah and Charleston.
The strategic high point of the war was Porter, Farragut and Grant cooperating to isolate the Confederate garrison at Vicksburg and forcing it to surrender.
The strategic fighting ends with General Terry and David Porter massing a huge armada and landing an amphibious force above Fort Fisher and forcing the garrison there to surrender, after one the bitterest, deadliest smaller battles of the war. After the Cape Fear river was closed to blockade runners everything else was anti-climatic.
The story history told about the US Civil War missed the mark. Naval power was dominant. The opponent that achieved naval dominance could move men and material by steam power over routes that were protected from raiding and sabotage. It had already been proven before the Civil War started.
The strategic high point of the war was Porter, Farragut and Grant cooperating to isolate the Confederate garrison at Vicksburg and forcing it to surrender.
The strategic fighting ends with General Terry and David Porter massing a huge armada and landing an amphibious force above Fort Fisher and forcing the garrison there to surrender, after one the bitterest, deadliest smaller battles of the war. After the Cape Fear river was closed to blockade runners everything else was anti-climatic.
The story history told about the US Civil War missed the mark. Naval power was dominant. The opponent that achieved naval dominance could move men and material by steam power over routes that were protected from raiding and sabotage. It had already been proven before the Civil War started.
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