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

• 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

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