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The original proponent of the divide-and-conquer plan to win the Civil War was General Winfield Scott. A life-long soldier (and politician), Scott proposed a strategy to subjugate the South that was known as the Anaconda Plan, as it intended to strangle the South through a naval blockade and Union control of the Mississippi River, which would cut the South into two vulnerable (and weakened) halves.
the strategy that the union used was called the anaconda plan the anaconda plan was that the union would surround the confederate on all sides
The rebels sprang on Grant's sleepy camp.
It was Called The Anaconda Plan
The rebels sprang on Grant's sleepy camp.