Promoted to Flag Officer, Du Pont led a great expedition to establish a base at the Port Royal Sound in South Carolina in the fall of 1861. Secretary Welles subsequently selected the board’s chairman, Captain Du Pont, as the leader of the new South Atlantic Squadron. They also recommended the division of the Atlantic squadron at the border of the Carolinas.
Among their recommendations, they proposed a series of attacks designed to create safe harbors further along the southern coastline. These men authored a series of reports during their meetings at the Smithsonian Institution from July to September 1861. Army Corps of Engineers and Professor Alexander D. The board members included Captain Samuel Francis Du Pont, Captain Charles H. The purpose of the board was to take on the enormous task of devising a strategy for maintaining an effective blockade of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of coastline. In May 1861, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles convened a Commission of Conference, or Blockade Strategy Board. On 19 April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for a blockade of Confederate ports along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
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