The document, signed in 1861, was Lincoln’s order launching the famous “Anaconda Plan," which entailed the naval blockade of ports in Southern states that seceded from the Union.
Lincoln s Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois newschannel20.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newschannel20.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate against the Southern states. The Anaconda Plan would be the result, a critical strategy the Union employed to cut off the supply chains to the South that would remain in place until the Confederacy was .
Illinois' governor and first lady have donated a key Civil War document signed by Abraham Lincoln to the presidential library and museum that bears his name. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and first lady M.K. Pritzker were scheduled to visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Tuesday to announce their donation of the document in which Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico in April 1861. The Union's naval power thereby put a chokehold on the Confederacy's export of cotton and import of necessary material. The document will go on display at the presidential museum from Wednesday to February 2025.