![]() ![]() There were only two problems in 1861 (when the plan was proposed) - the Union lacked a Navy big enough to blockade the ports and didn’t have an Army and Navy capable of conducting the attack down the Mississippi. Designed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, it envisioned a naval blockade of Confederate ports followed by an attack down the Mississippi River to secure the river and divide the Confederate States of America in two. The original Anaconda Plan was a Union Plan to defeat the Confederacy in the U.S. Anaconda has become a metaphor in war and business for actions or a plan designed to constrict or suffocate an adversary. There are four species of the anaconda with the green anaconda being the largest of the four. Second invasion of the north and flees to Richmond, and the stage is set for the final year, and little bit more of the war, which we'll get to in the next video.The anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake that overcomes its victims first by asphyxiation, then by crushing and eating them. So that's 1863, the period at which Grant becomes Commander of the Armies, Lee is turned away from his Who really ends the war by forcing Lee's surrender. With Lee, as he will do once he heads to RichmondĪnd then later Appomattox, he's going to be the one He is the General in Chief, and it's going to be Grant who ultimately leads the Union to victory and when he meets up Lincoln makes Grant the commander of all the Union armies. He takes Chattanooga andįirmly puts Tennessee in control of the Union. The Siege of Vicksburg, Grant goes up into Tennessee and finally captures Tennessee. Grant, Lincoln finally finds his general. ![]() The Union army has had a multitude of commandersīut in Ulysses S. Of the Confederate armies this entire time, but Looking for a great general to lead his armies, Now, Lee has been the commander ![]() Major victory by taking Vicksburg, and now controllingĪll of the Mississippi River. Now in the Western Theater of the war, Ulysses S. ![]() That's gonna be following them here as well. That's the Eastern Theater, and I'll draw the blue line Really fierce fighting here in this northern part of Virginia known as the Wilderness Campaign as Lee retreats to Richmond. Made an attempt to invade the North and got as farĪs southern Pennsylvania where the Union troops led by General George Meade turned the Confederates away and so now, they're headed back to Virginia. Lee, who's theĬommander of the Armies for the Confederacy had Is this Western Theater, and that includes the Mississippi River and these key border states Where battle takes place during this Civil War. Piedmont region of the East is one of the main areas The Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia, and through Georgia, so kind of the tidewater Lot of the battles that are gonna take place in There's the Eastern Theater of the war, which is over here, and that includes a So, thanks to this mountain range, there are two real main theaters of war during the Civil War. Mountain Range, and so this is gonna be a difficult area Of hard to see from this map is that there are mountains here. You know that these are the border states, so there's still slaveryĪllowed in places like Kentucky and Tennessee and Maryland, and another thing that's kind The Union needs to control is this sort of middle region here. Had just taken Vicksburg, which meant that the Union had control of the Mississippi River, so you can see that the plan to surround the South So, the other reason whyĪbraham Lincoln was so happy after the North won theīattle of Gettysburg is because Ulysses S. The Mississippi River, which goes here, doo, doo, doo. So, now you recall that they were going to blockade the Atlantic Ocean so that the South couldn't ship any of its cotton or receiveĪny supplies from Europe, so that's not happening, and, to take control of So, the Anaconda Plan is going fairly well in this late period of the war. So, the South would have no choice but to surrender as they Gonna be to squeeze the South by completely surrounding it and then not allowingĪnything to get in or out. That squeezes its victims, so the plan of the North was Very beginning of the war, the North strategy wasĬalled the Anaconda Plan. Through the last stages of the Civil War starting with late 1863. In the next few videos, I'd like to take you To dedicate the cemetery that was being built there to hold the battlefield dead, which numbered in the thousands. We've been talking about the later stages of the American Civil War, and in the last videos, we talked about the Battle of Gettysburg and the GettysburgĪddress, which happened in November of 1863 as Abraham Lincoln went to the site of the Battle of Gettysburg ![]()
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