Which of the answers was the official name for Scott’s Great Snake strategy in the U.S. Civil War?

The Anaconda Plan was a US Civil War (1861-65) strategy proposed by the Union Lieutenant General Winfield Scott (1786-1866). He thought his plan would result in a quick victory for the Union and avoid massive war casualties.

The plan was called ‘Scott’s Great Snake’ as displayed on the 1861 cartoon map in the picture. It called for the defense of Washington, D.C., a blockade of the Confederates’ Atlantic and Gulf coasts and ports, and a massive land and naval attack along the Mississippi River aimed at cutting the Confederacy in two. Also, his idea was to isolate the Confederacy both diplomatically and economically, preventing it from exporting cotton and tobacco to Europe and importing weapons, foodstuffs and other necessities needed to conduct a war.

President Abraham Lincoln agreed with the naval blockade but due to political pressure in 1861, he shelved the rest o the plan.

Scott was a native of Virginia and had been general-in-chief of the U.S. Army for 20 years. A hero from the War of 1812 and the Mexican War of 1846-48, he had also been a presidential candidate for the Whig Party In 1852. He was also known by the nicknames- ‘Old Fuss and Feathers’ due to his insistence on proper military etiquette and ‘The Grand Old Man of the Army’. He died at the age of 79 at West Point, New York.