For many the Civil War conjures up images of brilliant army officers engaged ... thereby disrupting the Union’s economy. The U.S. Navy launched a blockade strategy to deter Confederate trade ships ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil ... Navy. One of the first things the Union did was implement a naval blockade ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did something about it.

Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach ... 3, 1865, John Leach said. In the Navy, George Thomas Leach served on ships assigned to blockade duty along the East Coast, according to John Leach.