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In 1861, J. B. Elliott of Cincinnati published the following cartoon map entitled Scott’s Great Snake. The map references General Winfield Scott’s plan to blockade the Confederacy’s Atlantic and Gulf coasts and launch a major offensive down the Mississippi River to divide the South in two. Elliott’s map compares Scott’s scheme to an ...
NorthernSource Anaconda Plan. Seasoned 74-year-old General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, commander of the U.S. Army since 1841, outlined a plan below to strangle the Confederacy by taking control of the Mississippi and enforcing a coastal blockade. Newspapers ridiculed the so-called Anaconda Plan as too slow, editor Horace Greeley writing ...
Digital History ID 3065. The initial Union strategy involved blockading Confederate ports to cut off cotton exports and prevent the import of manufactured goods; and using ground and naval forces to divide the Confederacy into three distinct theaters. These were the far western theater, west of the Mississippi River; the western theater ...
How It Ended. Although the Union successfully defended Jackson, the Confederates won a strategic victory. The Confederates destroyed parts of the Union railroad leading toward Corinth, Mississippi and bought time for the Confederates to prepare for a battle at Vicksburg, which eventually fell to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863.
Digital History ID 3065. The initial Union strategy involved blockading Confederate ports to cut off cotton exports and prevent the import of manufactured goods; and using ground and naval forces to divide the Confederacy into three distinct theaters. These were the far western theater, west of the Mississippi River; the western theater ...
The press ridiculed Scott’s strategy as the “Anaconda Plan,” after the snake that kills by constriction, but it had its supporters as the anti-Confederacy envelope illustrates. This general strategy contributed greatly to the eventual Northern victory.
The term "Anaconda" was a derisive name, originally coined by the press mocking the General-in-Chief Winfield Scott for how long the plan would take to implement.
