The Anaconda plan was strategically simplistic and of course tactically difficult to implement. It entailed controlling the Mississippi (which would split the Confederacy) and blockading the South to prevent exports (which would be used to pay for weapons).
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These ships were called blockade runners
Much bigger population from which to recruit armies. Nearly all the industrial manufacturing capability in America. A Navy big enough to blockade the Southern ports. A big advantage in artillery. A President of exceptional talent.
Until the end of the war, tactics on both sides remained the same as in Napoleonic times. The union strategy was a blockade strategy at sea and on the rivers, coupled with a total war strategy to destroy the means of producing war supplies on land.
Rapid population growth
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These ships were called blockade runners
* Manpower. * An Industrial base. * A fleet capable of establishing a blockade on the South. * lots of girls
Gettysburg, which was the turning point of war. The Battle of Antietam. And the Siege of Vicksburg, which split the South in two as part of the Norths 'Anaconda Plan'.
The strategy was called The Anaconda Plan. It was devised by General Scott in the early days of the war. It called for the blockade of southern ports, closing the Mississippi to southern supply traffic, and starving the South into submission. The actual events modified the plan by also capturing the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, and advancing into the heartland of the South, but the overall design remained intact.
Norths Devils was created in 1927.
Much bigger population from which to recruit armies. Nearly all the industrial manufacturing capability in America. A Navy big enough to blockade the Southern ports. A big advantage in artillery. A President of exceptional talent.
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Until the end of the war, tactics on both sides remained the same as in Napoleonic times. The union strategy was a blockade strategy at sea and on the rivers, coupled with a total war strategy to destroy the means of producing war supplies on land.
stength in numbers
because they were ugly