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Blockade runners enabled the Confederacy to survive for as long as it did. Supplies brought into the South through the blockade included 60 percent of the weapons used by the Confederate armies and most of the ingredients needed to manufacture ammunition. In the last six months of 1864, through the ports of Wilmington and Charleston alone came 500,000 pairs of shoes, 1.5 million pounds of lead, 3.5 million pounds of meat, 2 million pounds of saltpeter, 43 cannon, and 50,000 rifles, along with clothes, blankets, and medicine. It was largely because of these imports that Lee's 72,000-man Army of Northern Virginia, fighting in the trenches at Petersburg, was able to receive 150,000 shirts, 167,000 pairs of shoes, 140,000 pairs of pants, and 100,000 jackets during the last months of the war. At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate states had very little industry and manufacturing and only a...

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