Winfield Scott
There were mixed reviews by the North at the beginning of the Civil War that the Anaconda Plan was a viable plan. The plan was proposed by Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief.
Lieutenant-Gen. Winfield Scott, General in Chief of the US Army in 1861.
Winfield Scott
The Anaconda Plan or Scott's Great Snake is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. The plan was sound, however, many Northerners demanded direct and fast action to end the Southern rebellion. Later major parts of the plan would be implemented.
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.
That was Winfield Scott, the General-in-Chief who was still in the chair in 1861, although far too old for the job. His long-term plan for the war was ridiculed as 'Scott's Anaconda' (slow strangulation) at a time when almost everyone else thought it would be a short and fairly bloodless war. Time would prove him right, and the Union did eventually put this sort of plan into effect.
the Anaconda Plan
Mississippi river
The North's war plan was called the Anaconda Plan because it aimed to suffocate the Confederacy economically and strategically, much like an anaconda snake constricts its prey. Proposed by General Winfield Scott, the plan involved blockading Southern ports to cut off supplies and capturing the Mississippi River to divide the Confederacy. This strategy sought to weaken the South's resources and morale over time, ultimately leading to its surrender.
The Union or the US side had the Anaconda Plan. It was devised by the aged General In Chief, Winfield Scott. It was a plan to blockade the Southern coast and capture ports along the Mississippi River in order to choke off Confederate supply lines from Europe as well as from the western reaches of the Confederacy.