Enjoying myself. I had no clue what was going to happen to me just a year from now and how my life would changeâ¦. I wrote a television series and had nearly optioned a screenplay with a production company. I signed an actor to my project who was a very funny comedian that loved my script and joined with my ...
The Union established the Gulf Blockading Squadron on October 29, 1861. Based at Key West, Florida, this fleet was responsible for maintaining the Union blockade from that point to the Texas-Mexico border at the Rio Grande River.
Especially after the spring of 1862, the trans-Mississippi was strategically irrelevant to the South. The remainder of Confederate territory was too long and too thin, nowhere more than 450 miles deep. Such a territory can be broken into pieces, which is exactly what happened. Union naval power and the flow of the rivers in the West permitted Union forces to penetrate deeply into the Confederacy by early 1862.