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Bombardment of Port Royal, South Carolina, 7 November 1861, (1862-1867). The success of their attack on Port Royal gave the Union control of the waters off southern Georgia and eastern Florida enabling the establishment of an effective naval blockade of the Confederacy. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.