Blockade & Blockade Runners
Learning Modules:
Confederate Response: Blockade Runners
Readings:
Scans from the archives:
1861-1865 Newspaper articles of items for sale on runners
Diary of Colonel Lamb prices of goods
Daisy Lamb’s letter regarding the runner captains
Clyde-built steamers
Pay roster for average soldiers
General Whiting’s reports on blockade runners in the Cape Fear (A Necessary Evil?)
Discussion Board:
- Review pay rosters versus costs of goods on Blockade Runners – who was really able to afford such luxuries?
- A blockade runner, after one run, could pay for the vessel; any subsequent successful run was pure profit. Was this necessarily patriotism for the ‘Cause?’
- As the war continued and the blockading squadrons grew – truly how successful were the runners and what effect did this have on the economy and military supply for the Confederacy?
- SIDEBAR! There is a ton of information that can be added – make it happen!

Zoom PP Lecture:
Only for the Few: Blockade Running and the American Civil War
LSS Notes:
Use paper from Ira’s class for zoom presentation