Blockade the Southern ports, to starve the Confederacy of supplies.
Liberate the Mississippi.
Then send in armies of invasion to attack the South's weakened and starving forces.
Vicksburg was a confederate stronghold on the Missippi River.
Vicksburg was a confederate stronghold on the Missippi River.
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).
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
The Anaconda Plan called for control of the Mississippi.
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river