The Anaconda was the joke-name given to the original war-plan by the Union's General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, because it looked like slow strangulation, when most officers and politicians were expecting the war to be all over after a quick, virtually bloodless march on Richmond.
The plan depended on a Naval blockade to starve the South, then a drive down the Mississippi, to divide the Confederacy in two (isolating all enemy troops to the west of the river), and then sending in the armies to defeat the weakened foe.
Congress rejected the plan, and Scott soon retired through old age. But under the test of an increasingly long war, the Union eventually saw the sense of this, and it brought victory.
It remains an interesting case of a highly distinguished soldier, able to provide valuable insights, but too old to be in command, and no longer vigorous enough to fight his plan through sceptical ministers.
The Anaconda Plan.
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
The Anaconda Plan was Gen.Winfield Scott's strategic plan for the North, not for the South. It consisted of blockading southern seaports and capturing the river ports of the Mississippi River. The South did not have an articulated war policy. It is one of their greatest failings.
Blockading the Southern ports. Liberating the Mississippi. Destroying the weakened Confederate armies.
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it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
it would give the Union control of the Mississippi river
well the unions plan was know as the anaconda plan. the idea was to "constrict" the south by their three way plan