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The Anaconda Plan
The anaconda plan was a plan that would use a Union naval blockade of the Confederate coastline to stop any military and commercial shipments that would aid the Confederate cause. It consisted of three parts: 1.) Block southern ports, so it couldn't export cotton or import goods 2.) Union riverboats and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two 3.) Union armies would capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia Dates: 1862-1865 Commandars: General-in-Chief Winfield Scott
Outcome: 360,000 people died Facrs: The Anaconda Plan was named for the South American anaconda; a snake that kills it’s prey by constriction and strangulation. Strangling the South to defeat by cutting off vital supplies from the outside was the basis for Scott's plan. General Scott called for the blockading of the more than 3,500 miles of coast line
