W.Barksdale wrote:5+ entrenchments and forts will stop riverine transport.
Most obstructions can only work on relateively small rivers anyway. Remember Banks' Red River Fiasco? Those sort of tactics wouldn't work on the Cumberland or the Mississippi. No use wasting time with it.
Jabberwock wrote:What about the Altamaha? Or the Lumber River? the Santee? I can get to some pretty important stuff sailing up those rivers.
W.Barksdale wrote:I can't really see how chains or flaming barges or anything of the like could seriously impede a fleet for more than a day.
W.Barksdale wrote:Well I guess it would be cool to have these sorts of things. Must not make them too effective\powerful though.
barkhorn45 wrote:drewrys bluff on the james river overlooked man made obstructions such as sunken ships and chain booms and when union ironclads attempted to advance up the james to richmond were stopped at this point and took heavy damage before withdrawing mainly because they could'nt elevate their guns enough to return fire
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