The Blockade of Confederate Ports, 1861â1865 Introduction During the Civil War, Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy. The blockade, although somewhat porous, was an important economic policy that successfully prevented Confederate access to weapons that the industrialized North could produce for itself.
The problem isnât so black and white when it comes to white nails. If your fingernail beds are looking a little ghostly, you may have anemia, a blood disorder characterized by a low red blood cell count.
In this condition, the nails are really normal in color but the nail bed, the tissue that lies beneath the nail, is blue. This is commonly called nail bed cyanosis and is a sign of poorly oxygenated blood or more accurately unoxygenated hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying protein in red blood cells.ale Nails. White nails with a rim of darker color at the tip of the nail is called Terry's nail and often a sign of a severe liver disease called cirrhosis.