At the start of the Civil War in 1861, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott was 74 years of age and physically unable to lead troops in the field. Nevertheless, he advised President Lincoln on military affairs and is attributed with the basic strategic plan for the North during the war, the so-called "Anaconda Plan", which laid out a long-term strangling of the South, militarily and commercially.
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Gen Winfield Scott was 74 and in illness when the Civil War started. He fought in no battles of this war.
Winfield Scott
At the start of the Civil War, Winfield Scott was the Commanding General of the Union Army.
Winfield Scott was old and ill and unable to go to into. If he had a horse it was hooked to a carriage. Thus, no name ever mentioned...........
Winfield Scott, the first UnionGeneral-in-Chief of the Civil War.
It was a civil war battle- Bragg v Grant. Union prevailed.