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He knew that it would be a long war, and that the strategy ought to be long-term, with effective blockading of the South, to squeeze the life out of the Confederacy.

This was derided as the 'Anaconda Plan'. But it was actually the basis of the strategy the Union eventually adopted.

Very few others realized it would be a long war, though some letters Sherman wrote to Southern friends at the beginning suggest that he was one of the few.

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