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Civil War Strategies
The Strategy of the C.S.A.
 Conduct Cotton Diplomacy
 Sell cotton to Great Britain to finance the war and
to coerce Great Britain to become an ally
 Fight a defensive war to outlast the Union’s will to
fight
Union Strategy
 Called the Anaconda Plan
 Blockade all Confederate ports
 Cut the far western states from the east by
capturing the Mississippi River
 Cut the states between the Appalachian Mts. and
the Mississippi River in half by controlling the
Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers
 Capture Richmond, Virginia
Theaters of War
 Two theaters of war
 Eastern Theater
 Fought on land east of the Appalachian Mountains
 Fighting to control land between Washington, D.C.
and Richmond, Virginia
 Northern Army called Army of the Potomac under
the leadership of Gen. George B. McClellan
responsible for defending Washington, D.C.
 Southern Army called Army of Northern Virginia
under the leadership of Gen. Robert E. Lee
responsible for defending Richmond.
Theaters of War
 Western Theater Battles fought west of the Appalachian Mts.
 Union Army of the Ohio led by Don Carlos Buell
and U.S. Grant in charge of controlling the
Mississippi River
 Southern Armies led by Albert Sidney Johnston in
charge of defending the West