In Tribute

The Yankee Blockade of the South Atlantic397 The Union Navy helped reduce the Confederacy. To say, however, that ifthe South had broken the blockade it would have ultimately whipped the Federal armies is not justified. Estimating what unlimited foreign commerce would have meant to the Rebels is nice mental exercise but unprofitable . No accurate picture of the blockade's influence can be made without an examination of the British and West Indian official records, private correspondence, company records, newspapers, and an exhaustive analysis of the materials in the United States. In Tribute KENNETH POWERS WILLIAMS, ONE OF OUH FINEST CTVIL WAR HISTORIANS and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Civil War History since its inception, passed away September 25, 1958. His Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of tlie Civil War is one of the classics on every Civil War bookshelf, yet it reflects only one of the facets of this brilliant, many-sided man—educator, mathematician, astronomer , soldier-citizen, as well as great historian. Williams' interest in military history stemmed from his own career as an army officer in both World Wars and as former Chief of Staff of the Indiana National Guard. At Indiana University, where Professor Williams established the Army ROTC in 1917, there has been created the Colonel K. P. Williams Memorial Award. Each spring, under the terms of the award, the top five freshmen in the American military history course will receive Williams' great book, Lincoln Finds a General. ...