Did the Anaconda Plan Include Capturing Richmond?

Divide the South by controlling the Mississippi River to cut the South off from the west. Divide the South by capturing the Tennessee River Valley and marching through Georgia to the coast. Capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

What did the Anaconda Plan include?

Anaconda plan, military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

What battles were part of the Anaconda Plan?

With the Siege of Vicksburg, Scott's Anaconda Plan, designed at the beginning of the Civil War with the goal to blockade the southern ports and to cut the South in two by advancing down the Mississippi River, was complete.

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