Anaconda Plan

(noun)

The Anaconda Plan or Scott's Great Snake is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.

Related Terms

  • blockade runner
  • Winfield Scott

Examples of Anaconda Plan in the following topics:

  • The Atlantic Theater

    • His strategy, part of General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan," required the closure of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of the Confederate coastline, as well as twelve major ports.
    • The Anaconda Plan, or "Scott's Great Snake," was an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states.
    • Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River in order to split the South.
    • An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan.
    • Describe the effects of the Union Blockade and the greater Anaconda Plan of the Atlantic Theater.
  • Naval Actions

    • His strategy, part of the Anaconda Plan of General Winfield Scott, required the closure of 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline and 12 major ports.
    • Early battles in support of the Anaconda Plan included the Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay (May–June 1861) and the Blockade of the Carolina Coast (August–December 1861).
  • The Battles: 1863–1865

    • Army, devised the Anaconda Plan to win the war with as little bloodshed as possible.
    • Lincoln adopted the plan, but overruled Scott's warnings that his new army was not ready for an offensive operation in order to satisfy public demand for an immediate attack.
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