"A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War" Topic

"It would take until the winter of 1863/64 for Grant to formulate a victorious Federal military strategy of overwhelming and coordinated military pressure across the whole breadth of the Confederacy's land and sea frontiers, and a full year's worth of campaigning between 1864 and 1865 to execute that strategy. Nevertheless, one should not believe that the Federal cause saw a complete absence of strategic planning at the outset of the war. In what the Northern press later dubbed the Anaconda Plan, Scott had proposed a Union military strategy early in the war combining a naval blockade with a waterborne expedition down the Mississippi "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." Union naval power would also seize New Orleans at the Mississippi's mouth, while riverine transport would allow the proposed expeditionary force to turn Confederate positions. Scott estimated in May 1861 that the Mississippi expedition would require approximately 60,000 soldiers, supported by forty steam transports and twelve to twenty gunboats…."
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Armand

What's 'interesting' are the ignorant, ridiculous and inane comments that are on the bottom of that page!

The book looks interesting. But Joe's 100% correct about the comments.

Ignore the comments my friend… the books is what matter or not… (smile)

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Armand

Armand: agreed!

(smile)

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Armand