SCOTTs GREAT SNAKE, 1861. A popular print
SCOTTs GREAT SNAKE, 1861. A popular print diagrams Gen. Winfield Scotts strategic plan for the US Civil War blockade of the southern ports and occupation of the Mississippi river. He presented it as a minimally violent isolation of the Confederate states from the outside world. It was adopted, but augmented by the deadly 4 year land war
Picture No
13123281
Media ID
45383041
Size
3000px x 2489px
(2.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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