Because they could not imagine that it would be a long war.
Because they were all expecting it to be a short war. Many recruits feared that they would miss the action.
cause their dumb
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).
The original plan was nicknmed the Anaconda, because it was aimed at a slow strangling of the Confederacy.
It was called the Anaconda Plan, because it was supposed to squeeze the life slowly out of the Confederacy. It was ridiculed because it appeared to be far too slow, at a time when almost everybody was expecting a short, glorious war.
The Anaconda (slow strangulation). Most politicians and Generals thought it would be too slow for the short war they envisaged.
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.
This was Winfield Scott's original war-plan, and it was never put into effect. Nearly everyone said it was too slow for the short war they were expecting, and 'Anaconda' (indicating slow strangulation) was a joke-name coined by the press. As the war dragged on, people began to see the strength of the idea, and when Grant was apoointed General-in-Chief in March 1864, he adopted a plan that was based on similar principles.
The Anaconda Plan, because it sounded like slow strangulation, when the Northern politicans and press were expecting a short, glorious war.
The North called their strategy the Anaconda Plan because it aimed to suffocate the Confederacy's economy and resources, much like an anaconda snake constricts its prey. The plan involved blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River, effectively cutting off supply lines and isolating southern states. By gradually tightening this economic and military pressure, Union forces intended to force a surrender without a need for prolonged and bloody battles. The name also conveyed the idea of a slow, methodical approach to victory rather than a quick, aggressive assault.
They thought it was far too slow and ponderous. Most people in Spring 1861 thought it would be a short and glorious war, and they ridiculed this long-term strategy of slowly squeezing the life out of the Confederacy, like an anaconda. Presently, they found that it was not going to be a short war at all, and the Union eventually followed a plan very similar to the Anaconda.
The anaconda is a slow moving animal. It begins with the letter a.
Anaconda Plan: a three-staged attack The North developed a complex plan to defeat the Confederacy with as little deaths as possible. This plan, consisted of three parts, a western campaign, an eastern campaign, and a naval blockade of the Southern coast. The plan was properly titled Anaconda because the North was trying to squeeze the South and divide it so that it couldn't show a united front.