Union blockade of GA's coast

The Union blockade was issued by Abraham Lincoln on April 19, 1861. The Union's plan was to stop supplies from getting in the South, and also to make it almost impossible for them to export. Some ships tried to make it around the Union's Blockade. These ships were called blockade runners. They were high-speed ships, but they had little capacity for goods on board. Five sixths of the time they were successful. But since they were carrying less cargo, there were less goods that made it into Georgia. Also, traders didn't want to take the chance of having their ship be intercepted. The end result of the blockade was that the Southern economy was failing and less supplies would make it into the country.