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During the Civil War, southern leaders believed their strategy of waging a defensive war of attrition would force the Union to spend its resources until it grew tired and agreed to negotiate.
==Winfield Scott was a U.S. army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig party in 1852. He had a plan called the Anaconda Plan that would seperate the South and slowly strangle it by cutting off resources to its armies.==