Nothing.
It just looked too slow to the majority of politicans and Generals, who were expecting it to be a short war.
In the end, Grant implemented a plan that was very similar.
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The Anaconda Plan, which called for a naval blockade of the South, designed to strangle off their supplies to wage war
Scotts anaconda plan was split into four parts. His first goal was to capture Richmond the South's capital. Next to capture the Mississippi river. Third to block all trading from foreign nations to the south. Last to conquer the inner lands o the south by dividing them in half
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).
Scott's Great Snake, sometimes called the anaconda plan, was Gen. Winfield Scott's plan to crush the confederacy economically, By deploying troops and naval ships to the souths major ports and down 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.
The Anaconda Plan called for the blockade of all southern seaports and the control of the Mississippi.
Simply because Scott proposed the plan.
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