It demonstrated that the war would not be over in weeks.
It would demand an expensive and laborious programme of recruiting, re-organising and supply, as well as long-term blockading of Confederate ports.
General Winfield Scott.
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The Anaconda Plan was created in 1861 when the Civil War started. The plan was put into action by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott.
General Winfield Scott
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Winfield Scott
David G. Farragut implemented Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan when he stopped the South from controlling the major waterways, such as the Mississippi River.
Lieutenant-Gen. Winfield Scott, General in Chief of the US Army in 1861.
He fought on the union side.