Course of the Civil War 

A large snake is an anaconda. Scott suggested suffocating the South with a naval blockade of its ports and the employment of the Northern navy to capture in order to reduce the slaughter.

President Abraham Lincoln finally had the chance to issue the Emancipation Proclamation after the Union won to Antietam.

According to the Emancipation Proclamation, all slaves in states that were still at war on January 1st, 1863, would be freed. In the border states that remained loyal to the Union, no slaves were freed.

Confederate general Robert E. Lee's bold plan to invade the North and end the Civil War quickly was failed at Gettysburg. The Confederate States of America's dreams of independence were crushed by the defeat there.

The address highlighted Lincoln's revised perspective that the Civil conflict was not merely a struggle to preserve the Union but also a fight for equality and freedom for everyone, an ideology he had not vigorously promoted in the years preceding the conflict.

Vicksburg was a crucial victory for both the Union and the Confederacy because of its advantageous location on the Mississippi River. The Union gained control of the Mississippi River and split the South in two as a result of the Confederate surrender there.