Anaconda Plan
"Winfield Scott's original plan on how to crush the rebellion." General-in-chief Winfield Scott was a great leader of the union troops during the civil war. He fought many battles and came up with various military strategies. His most famous military strategy was the "Anaconda Plan". He was the man that updated President Lincoln (personally) on the national military situation. These meetings were to help Scott work out the Union military aims.Winfield Scott was born in Petersburg, Virginia on June 13, 1786. Scott joined the army in 1808 and served with distinction as a young brigadier general in the 1812 War. Captured on the Niagara frontier he was exchanged in 1813 and fought with distinction at Chippewa (July 5, 1814) and Lundy's Lane (July 25, 1814). After the war, Scott rose to the rank of major general and went to Europe to study military tactics and in 1841 became commanding general of the United States Army. At the start of the Mexican War Scott recommended to President James Polk that General Zachary Taylor should command United States forces in the field. However, after Taylor made slow progress, Scott made a sea born
Only very late in the war was it actually more effectively enforced, but by that time the war had basically been decided. Everyone had there own opinion about the "Anaconda Plan". " Northeastern newspapers of the time harshly criticized the blockade: the New York Herald called Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, a moron, the New York Tribune published its view that the blockade was a "laughing stock," and the Philadelphia Enquirer stated that there was "no blockade at all. I believe it was a great strategy and helped us win the civil war. The failure of the Confederacy to supply its armies should not be credited! to the Union blockade, but to other factors that did not allow the Confederacy to take full advantage of its blockade-runners. The Navy had a grand total of 90 vessels, 42 of them commissioned for active service, and only 24 of them steamers. Only 160 vessels patrolled the blockade and only a small proportion of them were capable naval vessels. A member of the Whig Party nominated Scott to be candidate in the 1852 presidential election. In the election Franklin Pierce won 1,601,474 votes against Scott's 1,386,578. Overall, in terms of closing off ports, capturing ships, and stopping supply lines, the blockade was ineffective. The blockading force, although it had grown quickly, was still grossly inadequate. The Confederacy got most of its military supplies through the blockade. While some historians claim the blockade was one of the major causes of the collapse of the Confederacy, others contend that it was hopelessly ineffective. The "Anaconda Plan" came about when General Scott advised Lincoln to avoid battle with the Confederate forces in Virginia, to get control of the Mississippi River.
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