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 . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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