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Yes. That was the name the press used (derisively) about the original plan put forward by the elderly Winfield Scott, who was still General-in-Chief of the US Army after twenty years.

The plan assumed that there was no quick knockout solution, and that it would take time to recruit, equip and train the necessary troops. So it depended on constricting the life out of the Confederacy (like an Anaconda) by blockading the ports to stop the South importing its needs, then driving down the Mississippi and destroying the weakened armies.

No other senior general agreed with this at the time. But in the end, it was very much what did happen.

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