At the outbreak of war, he was the long-serving General-in-Chief of the United States armies.
Although clearly far too old for command by this time, he was one of the very few men on either side who realised it would be a long war of attrition. His plan for blockading the South was ridiculed as far too slow. But in the end, the North did follow a plan very similar.
No he did not fight in the Civil War
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During the American Civil War, the most well-known proponent of the Union's "divide and conquer" plan (in fact, its architect) was General Winfield Scott (1786-1866). Known derogatorily as the "Anaconda Plan," Scott's strategy focused on a blockade of the South's ports and the taking of the Mississippi River by Union forces, which would cut the South in two.
The General in Chief was at the outset of the US Civil war was General Winfield Scott. He would be replaced by George B. McClellan, followed by Henry Wager Halleck, and finally the post went to Ulysses S. Grant who held the post at the end of the war.
Ulysses S. Grant is a famous warrior who served under General Winfield Scott in the expedition to take Mexico City in the Mexican-Aerican war. He later served in the Union army in the US Civil War, and was promoted to general. After the war, Grant ran for President of the U.S., and won.
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At the start of the Civil War, Winfield Scott was the Commanding General of the Union Army.
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No he did not fight in the Civil War
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General Winfield Scott was the general in chief of the Union's military as the US Civil War unfolded.Not long after the armed conflict began, he left that position and became part of West point's administration.
At the start of the Civil War in 1861, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott was 74 years of age and physically unable to lead troops in the field. Nevertheless, he advised President Lincoln on military affairs and is attributed with the basic strategic plan for the North during the war, the so-called "Anaconda Plan", which laid out a long-term strangling of the South, militarily and commercially.
During the War with Mexico it was General Winfield Scott. During the Civil War, it was Jefferson Davis.
Winfield Scott fought in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the Confederacy.