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{{quote|text=It is certain that accurate maps must form the basis of well-conducted military operations, and that the best time to procure them is not when an attack is impending, or when the army waits, but when there is no hindrance to, or pressure upon, the surveyors. That no coast can be effectively attacked, defended, or blockaded without accurate maps and charts, has been fully proved by the events of the last two years, if, indeed, such a proposition required practical proof.|sign=Alexander Dallas Bache|source=1862 report<ref>[http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/history/CivilWar/docs/Coast_Survey_Report_1862.pdf Annual report, Nov. 7, 1862]</ref>}} | {{quote|text=It is certain that accurate maps must form the basis of well-conducted military operations, and that the best time to procure them is not when an attack is impending, or when the army waits, but when there is no hindrance to, or pressure upon, the surveyors. That no coast can be effectively attacked, defended, or blockaded without accurate maps and charts, has been fully proved by the events of the last two years, if, indeed, such a proposition required practical proof.|sign=Alexander Dallas Bache|source=1862 report<ref>[http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/history/CivilWar/docs/Coast_Survey_Report_1862.pdf Annual report, Nov. 7, 1862]</ref>}} | ||
Bache was also one of four members of the government's [[Blockade Strategy Board]], planning strategy to essentially strangle the [[Confederate States of America]] economically and militarily. On April 16, 1861, President | Bache was also one of four members of the government's [[Blockade Strategy Board]], planning strategy to essentially strangle the [[Confederate States of America]] economically and militarily. On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the [[Union blockade]] of ports from [[South Carolina]] to [[Texas]]. Bache's ''Notes on the Coast''<ref>[http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/hcp_notesoncoast.html Notes on the Coast]</ref> provided valuable information for Union naval forces. | ||
In 1861, Coast Survey cartographer Edwin Hergesheimer created a map showing the density of the [[Slavery in the United States|slave]] population<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_the_distribution_of_the_Slave_Population_of_the_Southern_States_of_the_United_States,_compiled_from_the_census_of_1860._Series_No._3033._-_Cgs05194.jpg Hergesheimer's 1861 map showing the density of the slave population using the 1860 census data]</ref> in the [[Southern United States]].<ref>[http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/preview/image/CWSLAVE Distribution of the slave population of the Southern States of the United States – 1860]</ref><ref>[[Susan Schulten]],[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/visualizing-slavery/ "Visualizing Slavery"], ''The New York Times Opinionator'', Dec. 9, 2010</ref> | In 1861, Coast Survey cartographer Edwin Hergesheimer created a map showing the density of the [[Slavery in the United States|slave]] population<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_the_distribution_of_the_Slave_Population_of_the_Southern_States_of_the_United_States,_compiled_from_the_census_of_1860._Series_No._3033._-_Cgs05194.jpg Hergesheimer's 1861 map showing the density of the slave population using the 1860 census data]</ref> in the [[Southern United States]].<ref>[http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/preview/image/CWSLAVE Distribution of the slave population of the Southern States of the United States – 1860]</ref><ref>[[Susan Schulten]],[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/visualizing-slavery/ "Visualizing Slavery"], ''The New York Times Opinionator'', Dec. 9, 2010</ref> | ||