the union won the civil war !
To liberate the Mississippi, deny its use to the Confederates, and seal-off all enemy units to the West of it.
they had better weapons and clever leaders. they would have stronger men too
Attrition - trying to stretch Lee's lines beyond breaking-point. The Pennsylvania miners who blew the Confederates off the top of the hill were badly let down by their Generals - as you can tell by the differing accounts of that tragic 'Battle of the Crater'.
To attack and destroy the Confederates ironclads or blocking the harbors where they were standing, preventing them from going into the open sea. To attack the Confederates coastal installation, supporting landing operations. Along the Mississippi River and other western waterway, ironclad gunboats were employed to gain the control of the same, to attack the Confederate river's strongholds and support the Union Armies advancing along their banks.
the union won the civil war !
To liberate the Mississippi, deny its use to the Confederates, and seal-off all enemy units to the West of it.
Long guns and hand guns.
Island-Hopping .
Yes
The union didn't use turtles as their primary source of food.
No, Scott devised the Anaconda Plan: a blockade and starve strategy.
containment
Simple attrition. Grant had ended the system of prisoner exchange, so the Confederates were bound to run out of men first. Then he simply battered away at Lee's army till his lines grew too thin to hold.
The Union wore dark blue uniforms and the Confederates used butternut or grey
i dont think I know this one charles
Beginning with the Union's defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run, it became clear that a comprehensive set of strategies needed to be used in order to end the Southern rebellion. Of course the elements of Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan were recognized as very valuable, they were so based on the Union's decision to use simultaneous advances to defeat the Confederacy.It was perceived by the Union generals that the vast Southern interior lent itself perfectly to Rebels ability to make good use of their interior lines. This was alluded to earlier in this answer. The best way to reduce the value of interior lines was to hamper their use by attacking the South simultaneously wherever that was possible. The strategy can be said to have been successful as in four years the South surrendered, however, the Union was not always successful when allying their basic form of ending the rebellion.