text: Yahoo!   My Yahoo!   Mail      \n Welcome, chobo219\n[Sign Out, My Account]    \nHome - Help - Forum\nWhat's going on in Answers? \n\nSearch Yahoo! Answers:    Advanced My Q&AHome > Education & Reference > Homework Help > Open Question \n  Thanks!\nThanks for visiting! (1 point) \n  Hello chobo219\nTotal Points 1\nLevel 1\n \n\nCategories\nAll Categories \nEducation & Reference \nFinancial Aid \nHigher Education (University +) \nHome Schooling \nHomework Help \nOther - Education \nPreschool \nPrimary & Secondary Education \nQuotations \nSpecial Education \nStudying Abroad \nTeaching \nTrivia \nWords & Wordplay \nSave to My Web\n \nAdd to My Yahoo! | RSSOpen Question\nShow me another >Accepting answers q\n  \nmelanie\n19 hours ago\n\n\nReport Abuse\n\n pLeAsE HeLp mE sOmEoNe !!!?\nWhat was the Anaconda Plan? I know when it was used and where but what did the south do? PLEASE HELP ME! I will give 20 points to best answer! \n\n3 Answers \nYou've already answered this question.\n  \n \n \nEmail Question\n\nAdd to Watch List           \nAnswers\n\nA. Javier V\n19 hours ago\n\n\nReport Abuse\n I would appreciate to be the Best Answer ! haha, hope that this is useful.\n\nThe Anaconda Plan was proposed in 1861 by Union General Winfield Scott to win the American Civil War with minimal loss of life, enveloping the Confederacy by blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River.\n\nMajor General George B. McClellan, a rising military star in Ohio, proposed an overall strategy for the war directly to President Abraham Lincoln, one that emphasized the part his army could play. Scott, the general-in-chief of the U.S. Army, wrote a letter to McClellan on May 3, 1861, stating in part:\n\nIt is the design of the Government to raise 25,000 additional regular troops, and 60,000 volunteers, for three years. ... We rely greatly on the sure operation of a complete blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports soon to commence. In connection with such blockade, we propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the ocean, with a cordon of posts at proper points ... the object being to clear out and keep open this great line of communication in connection with the strict blockade of the seaboard, so as to envelop the insurgent States and bring them to terms with less bloodshed than by any other plan.[1]\n\nScott went on to warn against hot-headed demands for a march on the Confederate capital, Richmond.\n\nScott's plan involved two main parts.\n\nBlockade the coast of the South to prevent the export of cotton, tobacco, and other cash crops from the South and to keep them from importing much-needed war supplies. \nDivide the South by controlling the Mississippi River to cut off the southeastern states from the western. Scott considered this an "envelopment" rather than an "invasion", although it would require armies and fleets of river gunboats to accomplish it. \nHis proposal received considerable public criticism at the time. A famous newspaper cartoon depicted a huge snake squeezing the Confederacy, thus giving the plan its popular name. The United States government never formally adopted it, but President Lincoln did implement the two parts. However, he ignored Scott's warning against direct invasion, and used far more troops (nearly two million), trying repeatedly to capture Richmond.\n\nLincoln called for a blockade of the South on April 19, 1861, six days after the fall of Fort Sumter (and a few weeks before Scott's letter). The blockade itself, thought to be an impossible task against 3,000 miles of highly irregular coastline, was an unparalleled success within the first six months, and nearly impregnable within the first two years. The blockade accounted for the vast increase in the price of cotton abroad and the extreme scarcity of manufactured goods in the South by the end of the war, contributing to the South's defeat. It was the most successful naval blockade to date, and the first