Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy 1861-1862 - Paperbackby Craig L. Symonds (Editor) Students of the American Civil War, whose ranks are legion, have paid vigorous attention to the many facets of the Union blockade of the Southern Confederacy. Questions of its strategic and economic impact are frequently debated, as are the important problems of logistics and diplomacy. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to the participants themselves. The men who served on the blockading ships of the U.