A question of interest to me centers on the issue of how much of the CSA was actually occupied by federal troops for most of the war. I know that the sea islands off Georgia were in Union hands from the start and Cape Hatteras, NC and the island itself were also controlled by federal troops. The area west to Edenton,NC was also in Union hands; which was about 20 miles or so. I will have to find the source for this for an update. I have recently read that even thou the confederate iron-clad Virginia was launched from the Norfolk VA area as of May of 1862 that area also was under Union control.
(Source: "Bell of the CSS Virginia: the life and death of the first Confederate ironclad" by Philip D. Gordy, a Michigan born doctor with an interest in the Civil War. In The Civil War Historian May/June 2006).
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