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Causes Of Abraham Lincoln's Decade Of The Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln requested a blockade on the southern coasts so the Union will have an advantage over the South on water. This is the very first Union blockade of the civil war. Abraham Lincoln’s plan was to cut off all trade going in and out of the South. The Union hope to cut off the Confederacy's major crop, cotton. The task was hard for the Union because the Southern coast measured over 2,500 miles and the Union navy numbered less than 40 ships. The Union also needed a group of gunboats that support army campaigns down the Mississippi River and in Northern Virginia. If the Union could have boats up and down the mississippi river then they could to turn the war in our favor. but it’s a long and dangerous task. If we even to the mississippi
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