Union leadership in the form of General Winfield Scott devised a blockade plan to choke the flow of supplies into southern ports and divide the Confederacy via the Mississippi. This cartoon representation of the proposed blockade notes that there’s “Poor Eating” in NC even as it points out one of the state’s greatest strengths in our tar, pitch, and turpentine industry. This well-known piece of wartime propaganda was released in May, 1861.
Sources: “Anaconda Plan” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan and “Civil War Maps” on the Library of Congress’ American Memory site: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701s+cw0011000))+@field(COLLID+cwmap))
