thousands of what is it, almost a 2,000 mile coastline,

2千英里的海岸线
1,500 mile coastline I believe,

我估计是1500英里海岸线
if you add up Florida all the way up to Virginia.

如果你算上佛罗里达到弗吉尼亚的那段
And when Lincoln announced the call for

当林肯在61年4月
75,000 volunteers in April of '61,

宣布召集7万5千名志愿军的时候
he also announced a naval blockade of the entire South.

他也宣布了对整个南方进行海军封锁
Now this will forever be a tricky legal story

这是一个合法的伎俩
and an interesting constitutional problem.

还是一个很有意思的宪法问题
Lincoln says the southern states

林肯说南方各州
could not constitutionally secede from the Union;

脱离联邦不成立
they were not therefore a legitimate belligerent.

他们不是合法的交战国
He was not in any way recognizing them as a legitimate government,

他从未承认过他们政府的合法性