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The Anaconda Plan was a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. [1] Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.
Gideon Welles, the son of Samuel Welles and Ann Hale, [1] was born on July 1, 1802, in Glastonbury, Connecticut. [2] His father was a shipping merchant and fervent Jeffersonian; [3] he was a member of the Convention, which formed the first state Connecticut Constitution in 1818 that abolished the colonial charter and officially severed the pre-American Revolution political ties to England.
The importance of Charleston to the Confederate cause, after the Union implemented their Anaconda Plan, can be summarized in the words of Gen. Robert E. Lee, "The loss of Charleston would cut us off almost entirely from communications with the rest of the world and close the only channel through which we can expect to get supplies from abroad, now almost our only dependence."
( United States from 1776 onwards) Great Britain: American Revolutionary War: The British Empire declared the American colonies to be in a state of rebellion after the First Continental Congress and refused to recognize their Declaration of Independence. The blockade ended with the Treaty of Paris recognizing U.S. independence and ending the war.
An important part of this plan was controlling the Mississippi River, which would sever the Confederacy in two and provide an outlet for northern goods to be shipped to foreign markets. [1] While the Anaconda Plan was not adopted as official policy, control of the Mississippi was adopted as a major Union objective. [ 2 ]
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Cotton diplomacy was the attempt by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce Great Britain and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against Britain and the rest of Europe.
The War for the Union (4 vols. 1959–1971), the standard scholarly history of wartime politics and society. Rodgers, Thomas E. "Copperheads or a Respectable Minority: Current Approaches to the Study of Civil War-Era Democrats". Indiana Magazine of History 109#2 (2013): 114–146. in JSTOR; historiography focused on Klement, Weber and Silbey.