Capture of the Forts at Cape Hatteras Inlet by Alfred R. Waud, artist, August 28, 1861.
Active
1861
Country
United States
Branch
United States Navy
Type
naval squadron
Military unit
The Atlantic Blockading Squadron was a unit of the United States Navy created in the early days of the American Civil War to enforce the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States. It was formed in 1861 and split up the same year for the creation of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
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North AtlanticBlockadingSquadron and the South AtlanticBlockadingSquadron. Following President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation of a blockade of Southern...
Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the South AtlanticBlockadingSquadron. The North AtlanticBlockadingSquadron was based at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and...
and reassigned to the North AtlanticBlockadingSquadron. She put in at Hampton Roads on 8 October and took up blockade station off Wilmington. Tuscarora...
North AtlanticBlockadingSquadron, covering the coastlines and inland waters of Virginia and North Carolina, and finally the Mississippi River Squadron. As...
fleet under Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham, commandant of the AtlanticBlockadingSquadron, which had been ordered to keep moving, to avoid presenting a...
Ambrose Burnside and accompanied by armed vessels from the North AtlanticBlockadingSquadron, were opposed by an undermanned and badly trained Confederate...
Rear Admiral Dahlgren for duty in the South AtlanticBlockadingSquadron in what is known as the Union blockade. This was a massive effort by the Union Navy...
USS Seneca in September that year and took part in the South AtlanticBlockadingSquadron. Ammen then participated in the Battle of Port Royal on November...
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