Controlling the Mississippi river.
One important part of the Anaconda Plan was to take control of the Mississippi River. Another part was to block all ports and to take over Richmond.
Anaconda plan
The Anaconda Plan
The blockade was one of the three elements of the Anaconda Plan. Part two was control of the Mississippi while part three was denial of the West to the Confederate States.
They are the same thing. The press drew a cartoon of an anaconda, to indicate slow strangulation, and the Union's original war-plan was then nicknamed the Anaconda Plan (or the Anaconda).
Controlling the Mississippi river.
the anaconda plan happen in the 1890's.
the Anaconda Plan.
Even today, the importance of the Anaconda Plan is a matter of debate.
Plan by the Union military to defeat he Confederacy by surrounding it and cutting off access to any other part of the world.
Controlling the Mississippi was an important part of the Anaconda Plan. It allowed the Union freedom of movement and freedom from attack in the rear.
The Anaconda Plan called for the blockade of all southern seaports and the control of the Mississippi.