Ill. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential library
by Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune
Apr 30, 2024
2 minutes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate against the Southern states.
The Anaconda Plan would be the result, a critical strategy the Union employed to cut off the supply chains to the South that would remain in place until the Confederacy was defeated in 1865.
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