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The Anaconda Plan
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Monday, July 27, 2009
General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan was a strategy to blockade the South by sea, and gain control of the Mississippi River. This would split the South, and eventually deprive it economically.
President Lincoln’s Response to Horace Greeley
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2007
On August 20, 1862, an open letter from Horace Greeley to President Lincoln entitled; “The Prayer of the Twenty Millions” appeared in the New York Tribune. On August 22, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln’s response to Greeley was published in the New York Times.