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What effect did the Anaconda Plan strategy have on the Union?

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The Anaconda Plan would move 60,000 Union soldiers in 40 steamboats and 20 gunboats down the Mississippi River, capturing forts and towns along the way. This would secure the river down to the naval blockade, dividing the South in half and establishing communications lines between the ships and the North

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