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===Strategic plans===
===Strategic plans===
Northerners rallied behind Lincoln in response to the attack on Fort Sumter, while the new president called for troops to preserve the Union. General Scott also drew up a grand strategy, called the ''Anaconda Plan, in which the entire South would be encircled by a naval blockade, with a splitting of the country down the Mississippi. Believing that the war itself would not last long, Lincoln called for 74,000 volunteers to enlist for 90 days. The response to the troop call up from four states was not what Lincoln wanted:
Northerners rallied behind Lincoln in response to the attack on Fort Sumter, while the new president called for troops to preserve the Union. General Scott has drawn up a grand strategy, called the ''[[Anaconda Plan]]'', in which the entire South would be encircled by a naval blockade, with a splitting of the Confederacy down the Mississippi, and a routing of insurgents piecemeal. Believing that the war itself would not last long, Lincoln called for 74,000 volunteers to enlist for 90 days. The response to the troop call up from four states was not what Lincoln wanted:
*Virginia seceded April 17.
*Virginia seceded April 17.
*Arkansas seceded May 6.
*Arkansas seceded May 6.
*Tennessee seceded May 7.
*Tennessee seceded May 7.
*North Carolina seceded May 20.
*North Carolina seceded May 20.
When Virginia joined the Confederacy, the state was rewarded with a shift of the capitol from Montgomery to Richmond.
When Virginia joined the Confederacy, the state was rewarded with a shift of the capitol from Montgomery to Richmond. On April 20, after turning down an offer of high command from General Scott, Colonel Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the Army.
==References==
==References==