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Shipwreck 1860's 4 Inch Square Pontil Medicine
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This auction includes a pontilled square shaped medicine bottle which is the exact one shown in the photographs. Blue aqua. Open pontil, rolled lip, and squared edges. Nice whittle. Measures 4 inches tall, 1 3/4 inches wide, and 7/8 inches thick. It was purchased with several others in the 1970s at an auction in Charleston. However, I understand that is was recovered from a English blockade runner that sunk in the Wilmington, North Carolina harbor. Excellent condition with no chips or cracks. Slight salt water staining or scaling on sides Unmarked. I will be auctioning several pontilled bottles from the same shipwreck.
The Union Blockade refers to the naval actions between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, in which the Union Navy maintained a massive effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy. Ships that tried to evade the blockade, known as blockade runners, were mostly newly built, high-speed ships with small cargo capacity. They were operated by the British (using Royal Navy officers on leave) and ran between Confederate-controlled ports and the neutral ports of Havana, Cuba; Nassau, Bahamas, and Bermuda, w British suppliers had set up supply bases. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the blockade on April 19, 1861. His strategy, part of the Anaconda Plan of General Winfield Scott, required the closure of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of Confederate coastline and twelve major ports, including New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, the top two cotton-exporting ports prior to the outbreak of the war, as well as the Atlantic ports of Richmond, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and Wilmington, North Carolina. To this end, Lincoln commissioned 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war; nonetheless, five out of six ships evading the blockade were successful. The blockade runners carried only a small fraction of the usual cargo. Thus, Confederate cotton exports were reduced 95% from 10 million bales in the three years prior to the war to just 500,000 bales during the blockade period. On April 19, 1861, President Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports: "Was an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed tin comformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires duties to be uniform throughout the United States: And was a combination of persons engaged in such insurrection, have threatened to grant pretended letters of marque to authorize the bearers tof to commit assaults on the lives, vessels, and property of good citizens of the country lawfully engaged in commerce on the high seas, and in waters of the United States: And was an Executive Proclamation has been already issued, requiring the persons engaged in these disorderly proceedings to desist tfrom, calling out a militia force for the purpose of repressing the same, and convening Congress in extraordinary session, to deliberate and determine ton: Now, tfore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, with a view to the same purposes before mentioned, and to the protection of the public peace, and the lives and property of quiet and orderly citizens pursuing their lawful occupations, until Congress shall have assembled and deliberated on the said unlawful proceedings, or until the same shall ceased, have further deemed it advisable to set on foot a blockade of the ports within the States aforesaid, in pursuance of the laws of the United States, and of the law of Nations, in such case provided. For this purpose a competent force will be posted so as to prevent entrance and exit of vessels from the ports aforesaid. If, tfore, with a view to violate s... 
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