![]() Union President Abraham Lincoln set the Union’s first naval goal when he declared a blockade of the Southern coasts. The naval war was one of sudden, spectacular lightning battles as well as continual and fatal vigilance on the coasts, rivers, and seas. Sailors relax on the deck of the USS Monitor, July 9, 1862.Īs the Civil War raged on the land, the two national navies- Union and Confederate -created another war on the water. ![]()
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