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Item 5870
Title: Potato blockade, Fort Fairfield, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1980-03-27
Location: Fort Fairfield
Media: Photograph
Item 5877
Title: Potato blockade, March 27, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1980-03-27
Location: Fort Fairfield
Media: Photograph
Item 74391
Title: G. Henry Preble report on breach of blockade, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1862-10-10
Location: Mobile
Media: Ink on paper
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George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.