With the onset of the American Civil War, the Federal Government instituted a massive naval blockade of the Confederacy, dubbed "The Anaconda Plan." The northernmost extremity of the blockade, the Potomac River, was known as "the Anaconda\'s Tail." Herein is the untold history of the desperate struggle for control of that strategic waterway and the conflagration that ensued.
The story is not only of Union and Confederate naval and military episodes in the contest for command of the river, b.
With the onset of the American Civil War, the Federal Government instituted a massive naval blockade of the Confederacy, dubbed "The Anaconda Plan." The northernmost extremity of the blockade, the Potomac River, was known as "the Anaconda\'s Tail." Herein is the untold history of the desperate struggle for control of that strategic waterway and the conflagration that ensued
