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Davis did not have much of a strategy. It boiled down to a purely defensive policy which could be interpreted as a strategy of attrition, except it lacked a component to coordinate the resources of the entire forces, east and west. Union strategy, developed by Scott in the early days of the war, became known as the Anaconda Plan. It consisted of blockading the southern ports and sending troops down the Mississippi Valley to deny the river to the south as a source of reinforcements and supplies to bring the south to heel by starving it into submission, and allowing seceding states the chance to re-enter the Union on their own . With some variations added, and the scope expanded, this is the strategy that won the war.

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