Lincoln's Anaconda Plan

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

'Anaconda' was the name by which the press ridiculed the original war-plan put forward by the distinguished but elderly General-in-Chief of the Union, Winfield Scott. (It referred to slow strangulation.)

Almost everyone thought it was too slow to be practical, and it was not put into effect.

Later, when it turned out to be a long war after all, the Union followed many of its principles, including liberation of the Mississippi.

Answer 3

It was adopted at the beginning of the US Civil War and remained as the strategic and tactical concept for the conclusion of the war.

Answer 4

the anaconda plan was adopted by president Abraham Lincoln in 1861

Answer 5

Part one was during the battles of fort henry and donalson