His orders were to blockade the city into submission, starve the defenders or wipe them out. 他的命令要求严密封锁这座城市,使之不战而降,饿死或消灭它的保护者。
Conditions in Wilmington , the chief blockade port, now that Charleston's port was practically sealed by the Yankee gunboats, had reached the proportions of an open scandal. 在查尔斯顿港被北方炮艇严密封锁以后,威尔明顿成了封锁线贸易的主要港口,而那里的情况早已臭名昭著了。