CHARLES MAXWELL ALLEN

Bermuda was then a British possession. The major Lincoln foreign policy objective of the Civil War was to keep the British from assisting the Confederacy. Bermuda and the British people along the ocean trade routes to England lost a huge amount of business of in transit shipping of cotton from the South as the Union Naval Blockade of the South was very effective.

Bermuda was then a British possession. The major Lincoln foreign policy objective of the Civil War was to keep the British from assisting the Confederacy. Bermuda and the British people along the ocean trade routes to England lost a huge amount of business of in transit shipping of cotton from the South as the Union Naval Blockade of the South was very effective.