The so-called Anaconda Plan, first used in a press cartoon, ridiculing the plan for its slowness at a time when most people were expecting a short war. This was the battle strategy of General in Chief Winfield Scott.
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Plan was a war strategy designed to squeeze the Confederancy
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The Anaconda Plan was a military strategy devised by the Union during the American Civil War. It aimed to suffocate the Confederacy's economy through a naval blockade and by gaining control of the Mississippi River, effectively splitting the South in two. The plan was designed to weaken the Confederacy gradually, limiting its ability to sustain the war effort.
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The Anaconda Plan was a Northern strategy to seize the Mississippi River, capture Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, capture Chatanooga, a railroad center, and essentially divide it into parts and squeeze it like an anaconda.
The south didn't win the Civil War. It was the North (The Union) who beat the South (The Confederacy)
The Anaconda Plan.. They wanted to surround the South so they could squeeze them
He knew that it would be a long war, and that the strategy ought to be long-term, with effective blockading of the South, to squeeze the life out of the Confederacy. This was derided as the 'Anaconda Plan'. But it was actually the basis of the strategy the Union eventually adopted. Very few others realized it would be a long war, though some letters Sherman wrote to Southern friends at the beginning suggest that he was one of the few.
The new strategy was based on total war on the Confederacy.
True. The basic strategy of the Confederacy during the Civil War was primarily defensive. The South aimed to protect its territory and resources while seeking to wear down Northern resolve. By holding onto its land and leveraging its knowledge of the terrain, the Confederacy hoped to outlast the Union's military efforts.
He destroyed everything his army marched through. The South lost transportation lines, homes, civilians, and a lot of destroyed property. It left the Confederacy in ruins