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Pocohontus [sic] capturing blockade runner Antonia. Mobile

Pocohontus [sic] capturing blockade runner Antonia. Mobile

Rough sketch of two ships under sail. Title inscribed below image. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.458) Reference Print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms pa... More

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, which At  mpted to Run the Blockade, Near Newport News

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 6, 1865.
Pocohontus [sic] capturing blockade runner Antonia. Mobile

Pocohontus [sic] capturing blockade runner Antonia. Mobile

Rough sketch of two ships under sail. Title inscribed below image. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.458) Reference Print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms pa... More

The Sun, [newspaper]. November 21, 1863.

The Sun, [newspaper]. November 21, 1863.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Why don't you take it? - Drawing. Public domain image.

Why don't you take it? - Drawing. Public domain image.

Two other versions, no imprint. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alliance, blockade runner. Warship photograph collection

Alliance, blockade runner. Warship photograph collection

Broadside view of steamship. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.94) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Blockade on the "Connecticut Plan"

The Blockade on the "Connecticut Plan"

The artist ridicules the government's early efforts to overhaul and augment a somewhat outdated Union fleet to blockade Southern ports and effectively defend against Confederate privateers and blockade-runners.... More

[Incident in the blockade] - Public domain  drawing

[Incident in the blockade] - Public domain drawing

Four men, one badly wounded, are in a row boat trying to reach a distant ship in rough weather. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.537) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Why don't you take it? [Copy 2.]

Why don't you take it? [Copy 2.]

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Why don't you take it? [Copy 3.]

Why don't you take it? [Copy 3.]

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Sec'y Daniels -- 5 mins. After sending blockade order to Adm. Fletcher

Sec'y Daniels -- 5 mins. After sending blockade order to Adm. Fletcher

Photo shows Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) who served as Secretary of the Navy in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

"Bum blockade." All heading north. South of King City, California. Difficult to get a record of this movement because these men wouldn't be photographed as a result of Los Angeles police activity

"Bum blockade." All heading north. South of King City, California. Dif...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate blockade runner Robert E. Lee)]

[Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate bl...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built blockade runner Ruby, run aground after passing the Federal squadron, June 10-11, 1863]

[Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the B...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Stone blockade off Charleston - A black and white drawing of a boat in the water

Stone blockade off Charleston - A black and white drawing of a boat in...

Ships loaded with stones and sunk to block entrance of harbor, Charleston, South Carolina. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 10.

Fort Monroe, Virginia. Blockade runner TEASER off Fort Monroe

Fort Monroe, Virginia. Blockade runner TEASER off Fort Monroe

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G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Line. Arrival of the G.O.C. at the scene of the R.R. [i.e., railroad] blockade

G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Li...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate blockade runner Robert E. Lee)]

[Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate bl...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

The great naval blockade of Round Island.  Showing the immense importance of having an efficient "right arm of the national defence"

The great naval blockade of Round Island. Showing the immense importa...

A satire on Taylor administration efforts to curtail American "filibusters," armed expeditions against Cuba for the purpose of freeing the island from Spanish rule. Specific reference here is to the Navy's bloc... More

The Sumter running the blockade of Pass à l'Outre, by the enemy's Ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861 / lith. by Hoen & Co. Balto.

The Sumter running the blockade of Pass à l'Outre, by the enemy's Ship...

Illus. from: Memoirs of service afloat during the war between the states / Raphael Semmes. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869.

The New Year's address of the Newsmen of the New York Herald.

The New Year's address of the Newsmen of the New York Herald.

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

W. F. Weld & Co. to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, April 30, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
Admiral Porter's fleet running the rebel blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863

Admiral Porter's fleet running the rebel blockade of the Mississippi a...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0058 Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library ... More

The Sumter running the blockade of St. Pierre, Martinique, by the enemy's ship, "Iroquois," on the 23d. Nov. 1861 / lith. by Hoen & Co. Balto.

The Sumter running the blockade of St. Pierre, Martinique, by the enem...

Illus. from: Memoirs of service afloat during the war between the states / Raphael Semmes. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869.

Steamer Chicora - noted blocade (i.e. blockade) runner

Steamer Chicora - noted blocade (i.e. blockade) runner

Photograph shows the former Confederate blockade runner Chicora which came to the Great Lakes in 1868, along with other small craft in Lake Superior. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Part of ... More

The blockade of Charleston - A drawing of two ships in the ocean

The blockade of Charleston - A drawing of two ships in the ocean

Three sailing ships: "Vandalia", the prize "Arthur Middleton", and "Roanoke". Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 247 (1861 Sept. 21), p. 599.

Capture of the blockade runner HOPE by the United States steamer AEOLUS off Wilmington, Oct. 22, 1864

Capture of the blockade runner HOPE by the United States steamer AEOLU...

Wood engraving after sketch by S.M. Lane. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. History 1864 Oct. 22; Ships HOPE 1864; Ships,... More

U.S.S. Texas, Capt. Philip going to call on Capt. Higginson during Santiago blockade

U.S.S. Texas, Capt. Philip going to call on Capt. Higginson during San...

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Admiral Porter's fleet running the rebel blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863

Admiral Porter's fleet running the rebel blockade of the Mississippi a...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0058 Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library ... More

[Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built blockade runner Ruby, run aground after passing the Federal squadron, June 10-11, 1863]

[Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the B...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

The Blockade on the "Connecticut Plan"

The Blockade on the "Connecticut Plan"

The artist ridicules the government's early efforts to overhaul and augment a somewhat outdated Union fleet to blockade Southern ports and effectively defend against Confederate privateers and blockade-runners.... More

Admiral Porter's fleet running the rebel blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863

Admiral Porter's fleet running the rebel blockade of the Mississippi a...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0058 Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library ... More

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, which At  mpted to Run the Blockade, Near Newport News

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

Some specimens of "Secesh" industry - intended for the London Exhibition of 1862, but unfortunately intercepted by the "Paper Blockade"

Some specimens of "Secesh" industry - intended for the London Exhibiti...

Images show: Goblet - made from a "Yankee's skull"; paperweight made from a "Yankee jaw bone"; reading desk made from a human skeleton; furs made from scalps and beards; necklace of "Yankee teeth"; head wreath ... More

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 15th, 1865.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 15th, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain poetry book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built blockade runner Ruby, run aground after passing the Federal squadron, June 10-11, 1863]

[Folly Island, S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the B...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Blockade of the Potomac. Map showing Union and Rebel batteries January 1862. The Rebels evacuated all their batteries night of 4th March 1862.
Closing certain ports. A proclamation.

Closing certain ports. A proclamation.

From the Oliver R. Barrett Collection.

Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 18, 1865.
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [Naval blockade].

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [Nav...

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mortimer M. Jackson to William H. Seward, Monday, September 12, 1864  (Telegram concerning blockade runners at Halifax)
Official. By the President of the United States of America. A proclamation. Whereas, by my proclamation of the nineteenth of April, one thousand and sixty-one, it was declared that the ports of certains states ... be placed under blockade ... it

Official. By the President of the United States of America. A proclama...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 235, Folder 11.

Benjamin F. Butler, Monday, January 23, 1865  (Memorandum on blockade)
The Sun, [newspaper]. November 21, 1863.
American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 18th, 1865.
Sketch for the domestic blockade

Sketch for the domestic blockade

No publication information. Pen sketch "Christmas list for Santa Claus" on verso; not on digital file. (DLC/PP-1936:0065.25). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Marines from German warship on blockade duty, Suda Bay, Crete

Marines from German warship on blockade duty, Suda Bay, Crete

Rowing small launch; warship in backgrd. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood (J.F. Jarvis, publisher). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption car... More

Mortimer M. Jackson to William H. Seward, Monday, September 12, 1864  (Telegram concerning blockade runners at Halifax)
The Sumter running the blockade of Pass à l'Outre, by the enemy's Ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861 / lith. by Hoen & Co. Balto.

The Sumter running the blockade of Pass à l'Outre, by the enemy's Ship...

Illus. from: Memoirs of service afloat during the war between the states / Raphael Semmes. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869.

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 8, 1865.
American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 17th, 1865.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 17th, 1865.

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Proclamation by the President of the United States of American on blockade of Confederate ports.

Proclamation by the President of the United States of American on bloc...

The proclamations are dated April 19 and April 27, 1861. Printed on a fold with blank conjugate leaf.

American Civil War, the important events, such as battles, skirmishes, encampments, etc.

American Civil War, the important events, such as battles, skirmishes,...

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Executive order. I Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, having seen and considered the Additional Regulation of Trade prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and numbered LVII, do hereby approve the same.
Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 05, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 05, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 05, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
[Broadside views of three ships: Kanawha; Blockade runner Joe Flanner, captured by Pembina 1863 off Mobile; and Elias Beckwith]

[Broadside views of three ships: Kanawha; Blockade runner Joe Flanner,...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A vaudevil, sung by the characters at the conclusion of a new farce called the Boston blockade. [Five eight line verse] [Boston: Printed by John House, 1776].

A vaudevil, sung by the characters at the conclusion of a new farce ca...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Boston Blockade. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collect... More

Plan of the city and environs of Quebec, with its siege and blockade by the Americans from the 8th of December, 1775 to the 13th of May, 1776.

Plan of the city and environs of Quebec, with its siege and blockade b...

Scale ca. 1:6,900. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Includes historic notes and index to important buildings and military defenses. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 611 Avai... More

Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 18, 1865.

Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 18, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain periodicals page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [Naval blockade].

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [Nav...

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Benjamin F. Butler, Monday, January 23, 1865  (Memorandum on blockade)
American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 18th, 1865.
Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, August 10, 1861  (Advice regarding the blockade)
American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 17th, 1865.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 17th, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain poetry book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Capture of a blockade runner - Public domain  drawing

Capture of a blockade runner - Public domain drawing

Broadside view of two steamships in storm. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: Clouds and steam mixing up in masses/raining. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.355) Forms part of: Morgan c... More

Madison Ave. & 70th St., Strike blockade

Madison Ave. & 70th St., Strike blockade

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Ulysses S. Grant to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, February 03, 1863  (Telegram reporting that a Confederate ram ran through the blockade)
Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 05, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
Mortimer M. Jackson to William H. Seward, Monday, September 12, 1864  (Telegram concerning blockade runners at Halifax)
The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 6, 1865.
The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 6, 1865.
Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, August 10, 1861  (Advice regarding the blockade)
Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, August 10, 1861  (Advice regarding the blockade)
Ulysses S. Grant to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, February 03, 1863  (Telegram reporting that a Confederate ram ran through the blockade)
Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 05, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [Naval blockade].

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [Nav...

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Important dispatches from the South and East; President's Proclamation.
American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 18th, 1865.
Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, August 10, 1861  (Advice regarding the blockade)
Our naval and military operations at a glance. The coast and land line of the rebellious states-the Union blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coast-the rebel batteries on the Mississippi-the forts on the southern sea line
Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 18, 1865.

Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 18, 1865.

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American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 15th, 1865.

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 15th, 1865.

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Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Samuel P. Lee to Gideon Welles, Sunday, July 05, 1863  (Telegram reporting on the blockade at Wilmington)
The Sun, [newspaper]. November 21, 1863.
Mortimer M. Jackson to William H. Seward, Monday, September 12, 1864  (Telegram concerning blockade runners at Halifax)
[Broadside views of three ships: Kanawha; Blockade runner Joe Flanner, captured by Pembina 1863 off Mobile; and Elias Beckwith]

[Broadside views of three ships: Kanawha; Blockade runner Joe Flanner,...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 8, 1865.
Plan of the city and environs of Quebec : with its siege and blockade by the Americans, from the 8th. of December 1775 to the 13th. of May, 1776 /

Plan of the city and environs of Quebec : with its siege and blockade ...

Scale ca. 1:7,320. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes and index to points of interest and points of attack. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault A... More

Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, August 05, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
W. F. Weld & Co. to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, April 30, 1861  (Blockade of Southern ports)
[Incident in the blockade] - Public domain  drawing

[Incident in the blockade] - Public domain drawing

Four men, one badly wounded, are in a row boat trying to reach a distant ship in rough weather. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.537) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Benjamin F. Butler, Monday, January 23, 1865  (Memorandum on blockade)
The Sun, [newspaper]. November 21, 1863.
The Chicago Times, [newspaper]. June 6, 1865.
General orders no. 50. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

General orders no. 50. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

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G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Line. Arrival of the G.O.C. at the scene of the R.R. [i.e., railroad] blockade.

G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Li...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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