The primary goal of the Anaconda Plan was to blockade Southern ports and restrict supplies to the Confederacy.

Proposed by Association General Winfield Scott toward the start of the Nationwide conflict, the arrangement was expected to choke out the Southern economy by forestalling the commodity of cotton and the import of war materials. By laying out a maritime barricade along the shore and overseeing the Mississippi Stream, the Association would have liked to partition the Alliance and lessen its capacity to support the conflict exertion. This system stressed a steady way to deal with triumph, instead of prompting enormous-scope conflicts.