What We Learned from the Rebel Raiders

Among the Confederacy’s most successful responses to the Anaconda Plan—the Union’s Civil War strategy to blockade Southern ports and simultaneously advance down the Mississippi River to cut the Confederacy in two—was guerre de course (“war of the chase,” or commerce raiding). The burgeoning global trade in the mid-19th century made busy Union merchant ships particularly …

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