Union

The plan at the start and the end

The Anaconda Plan

Union General Winfield Scott devised the Anaconda plan early in the American Civil War. The strategy planned for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a push down the Mississippi, and Union land and naval troops strangling the South.

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