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Anaconda Plan

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 .

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Anaconda Plan

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  1. Anaconda Plan

  2. Plan by Winfield Scott to strangle the Confederacy by blockading the coast and Mississippi.

  3. Richmond

  4. Capitol of the Confederacy

  5. Modern War

  6. Use of Advancements to increase casualties • Repeating Rifles • Gatling Gun • Shells • Revolver

  7. War of Attrition

  8. Used by Northern General Ulysses S Grant • Fight to the last man

  9. William T. Sherman

  10. Union General • “Scorched Earth Policy” Make anything useless for the enemy • “Sherman’s March to the Sea” • Burned Atlanta

  11. Jefferson Davis

  12. President of the Confederacy • Former Kentucky Senator • Related to Mary Todd Lincoln

  13. Robert E Lee

  14. Defensive war strategy • Against leaving the Union • Head of Confederate forces • Offered leadership of Union forces at the beginning of the war.

  15. Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson

  16. Confederate General • Use of cavalry to outflank enemy attack • Shot by own men

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