Response To The Anaconda Plan

In response to the confederate attack on Fort Sumner, the General in Chief Winfield Scott, proposed his idea which he called the Anaconda Plan. The general idea was that the Federal government would use the Navy to block all the major southern ports such as New Orleans and Charleston. This blockade would be a method in which the government could supposedly quickly regain the submission of the southern states. The next part of the plan was for the Northern troops to take control of the Mississippi River to divide the southern states in half. The last major point of Steward’s plan was to march from the Tennessee Valley to the coast of Georgia. There were those who opposed the plan believing it was too slow and that enforcing a blockade would