Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan
Anaconda Plan
The liberation of the Mississippi. This isolated all Confederate units to the West of the river.
After the Union gained complete control of the Mississippi River with the capture of Vicksburg, the Confederate states of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas were cut off from the rest of the Confederacy.
Mississippi is a confederate state
Mississippi was a Confederate state
Mississippi was a Confederate state
Mississippi was a Confederate State.
The Anaconda Plan
Both. The Mississippi was a military highway of prime importance, and Grant's siege of Vicksburg, the last major Confederate stronghold on the river, swung the war decisively in the Union's favour.
The fall of Vicksburg on the Mississippi, last major Confederate river-port. This isolated all Confederate units to the West of the river.
Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the river.
It prevented Texas supplies from reaching Confederate troops.
Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan