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It was not really Lincoln's plan. It was put forward by the elderly General-in-Chief, Winfield Scott, and it was jokingly called 'Scott's Anaconda', because it suggested slow strangulation of the Confederacy.

Most people (on both sides) expected it to be a short war, so the Anaconda Plan did not go ahead.

Later, when it became clear that it was going to be a long war, the Union adopted a plan very like it.

This was an interesting example of profound military insight by a General who was much too old (couldn't get on a horse, hardly able to walk) and should have retired years earlier. Yet if they had proceeded with his plan at the beginning, the war might have been over sooner.

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