Anaconda Plan
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Anaconda Plan
• Plan by Winfield Scott to strangle the Confederacy by blockading the coast and Mississippi.
Richmond
•Capitol of the Confederacy
Modern War
• Use of Advancements to increase casualties• Repeating Rifles• Gatling Gun• Shells• Revolver
War of Attrition
• Used by Northern General Ulysses S Grant• Fight to the last man
William T. Sherman
• Union General• “Scorched Earth Policy” Make anything useless
for the enemy• “Sherman’s March to the Sea”• Burned Atlanta
Jefferson Davis
• President of the Confederacy• Former Kentucky Senator• Related to Mary Todd Lincoln
Robert E Lee
• Defensive war strategy• Against leaving the Union• Head of Confederate forces• Offered leadership of Union forces at the
beginning of the war.
Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
• Confederate General• Use of cavalry to outflank enemy attack• Shot by own men