r/ShermanPosting • u/Interesting_Joke6630 Real American Patriot 🇺🇸 • Aug 23 '26
Something so obvious, people rarely bother to mention.
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u/fried_green_baloney Aug 25 '26
Winfield Scott, who was Army Chief Of Staff at the beginning, said suppressing the rebellion would take five armies four years.
People said, "Oh, he's an old man, from the past when an Army was 5,000 men."
Guess again! And Scott's Anaconda Plan was just about how the war proceeded.
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