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S 'ft. . MONDAY. MAY IS. 1SS1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON ... ..v, (i. ; iWw.., -jut. CT'-eiVIL WAR ccurtctiicr -1" ' f g M -T. 7 ' ' illU"1,1'1 'liL'.JLlU U liUjJUl 1 ' ACTION DEMANDED In the early days of the Civil War, the north was demanding action. With troops rallying -to the' colors in numbers. greater than Lincoln had asked for, a plan to subdue the South was called or. One of these was the ."Anaconda" plan of Lt. Gen. Winfied Scott, commander-in-chief of the Army. The plan was to subdue the South by squeezing it to death. This would be done with a tight blockade of the entire Confederate coast and the sending of an Army down the Mississippi river to split off the Old Soutth from the "breadbasket" ' of Texas' and Arkansas. This chart depicts the Anaconda plan. ' (UPI Telephoto) North Stud ies Plans to r War By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent . ' : The Civil War was a month old on May 14, 1861, and' the North was demanding action fast action. . ., , "On to Richmond", was be ginning to be heard in the land anri the rhnrua would , swell In the next two months and force' the military men to march into battle - against their better judgement- Enough troops had arrived ' In Washington to guarantee ' Its safety against' any ifiar'aud-' ing band of Confederate cav- ' 1 ... I . U Mtn.B miiraa. Ihon muj w-.viv iw -vw tv discretion, although President Lincoln could see a Secession flag flying across the Potomac l . i l-i ir- v.. I 1. in A1CAB11UI its, v "J iuvjh ; ing out the .White House of fice window". ' ' " .' -.' ,.' . : , Sometimes he aat with his i feet propped on the window sill,, resting a telescope be tween the toes of his big boots, and looked at the Stars and Bars, a red flag to him. Threat From Arlington I The heights of Arlington, Va., would make ideal gun emplacements for 300 brand new Dahlgren cannons,-cap tured by the Confederates at the Norfolk, (Va.) Navy Yard, to batter the White House. Treasury or any other public building in the capital if the southerners could find car riages and set them up. The military men had all that in mind, but Virginia of ficially had not voted for se cession and would not until May 23. Lincoln hesitated to throw troops across the Poto mac until the people had con cluded a military agreement with the Confederacy on Ap ril 24 and the vote was merely a formality. ' ', With troops rallying to the colors in numbers greater than Lnicoln had asked in his proclamation, a grand plan to subdue the South seemed to be in order. Many were forth coming. Everybody seemed to have one, the general idea being that the sooner a "plan" was adopted, the sooner the war would be over. That was the one point everyone in the North could agree on. 'Squeti the South' Out of this welter came three general plans, more or less precise and detailed. First was the "Anaconda," plan of Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, commander-in-chief of the Army. As the nama im plied, Scott' plan was to de feat the South by squeezing lt to death. He advocated tight sea blockade of the en tire Confederate coast, 1,500' mile' stretch. This had been ordered by Lincoln on April 19 and gradually was begin ning to come into being as commercial steamers, ferry boats, yachts and any ship that could carry a gun were being pressed into service. The other main part of Scott's plan was to send a big army about 83,000 men down the Mississippi River reinforced by gunboats and split off the Old South from the cereals and meats of Texas and Arkansas. He would keep a holding army before Wash' ington. Thus, he reasoned, the South would be" strangled by the spring of 1862. Scott was convinced that the South would fight hard, -hence the strangulation policy was more economical of men and treas ure than pitched battles. MeClellan's Plan ..'''. ' Mai. Gen. George B. Mc- Clellan, raising an army in Ohio, heard of Scott's plan and submitted one of his own He would send an army of 80,000 from Ohio up the Ka nawha Valley across the mountains and hit Richmond on the flank. Another army of equal size would march south from Louisville or Cincinnati toward Nashville, a key point in tne mid-south. Presumably he expected to command at least one of these armies. .... 1 Postmaster General Mont gomery Blair had a more im aginative plan if not the best. Blair, a Union man from Maryland and son of F. P. Blair, one, of President An drew Jackson's advisers, was convinced that only a crust of the southerners would fight and that the rest were ready to revolt and come- back to the Union. He wrote: "My suggestion has been that we should at once organ ize a southern army .-. . and menace Norfolk and Rich mond (Va.). The band of mar auders that now pervade the state of Virginia would then rust) to meet the threatened invasion, the people of Vir ginia would speak their real minds .at the. approaching election and their votes . . . would drive the marauders out of the state." Blair did not specify how and with what the North could mount such an offensive in the few weeks before Vir ginia would vote on secession. Lincoln seemed to lean to Scott's plan as indicated by S TAR G AZER O yfS MAR ,25-38-52-571 W-65-72 MAY 2J 49-5547 MAY 22 JUNE 27 KVV-34-45-531 CANCH fM A JUNC23 ;gy7678-82-y01 I uo 1.5 AUG. 23 TlU-20-28-42 V 70-73-77 VMOO 12429-37-43 HV64-74-84-88 -By CLAY R. POLLAN M - Your Daily Activity Guide M According to Iht Slart. . To develop messoge for Tuesdoy, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 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Arkansas had gone over to the Confederacy on May 6 and North Carolina left the Union May 20, Ten nessee would go June 8, but Lincoln still pinned his hopes for saving that state on the preponderance of Union sen timent in the eastern counties. - Scott strangled MeClellan's plan and Blair's seems to have gone almost unnoticed. The cabinet strung along with Scott. His plan seemed to of fer the most for the least ex penditure of men and money. The general outline of Scott's "Anaconda" plan even tually was used by the Union to defeat the South. The sea blockade, reinforced by cap ture of. several strategic har bors early in the war, effect ively cut off the South from the rest of the'world. Grant Breaks Line Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke the Mississippi line at Vicks- burg, Union forces pierced Tennessee arly in the war and held on and Gen. William T. Sherman devastated the mid-South and crippled the Confederate supply line all movements that were em braced or contemplated in the "Anaconda" plan. But all this took four years to accom plish, not the few months Scott had hoped. The 80,000 -men armies which Scott and McCellan suggested would grow to far bigger figures, and instead of the two and three armies they visualized there would be a dozen. The 80,000 figure seemed to be the limit of Scott's and MeClellan's com prehension of the size of ar mies a limitation readily understandable, for Scott had never commanded more than 25,000 in the field and Mc Clellan never even had com manded a regiment.. The chief weak point in Scott's plan, military men agree, was that his target was holding territory rather than the destruction of the Con federate armies, the objective Grant saw early in the war and pursued to victory. Ashland Boy Sentenced In District Court A 17-year-old Ashland boy was sentenced in district court Thursday for destroying scien tific instrucents. ' i Imposition of sentence was suspended for six months on the condition that he observe an 8 p.m. curfew, make resti tution and work 60 hours for the city of Ashland prior to July 30. , The sentence was made by Judge L. L. Sawyer. The boy pleaded guilty May 8 to charges of destroying an air plane transmitter receiver last October in an airplane parked at the Ashland air port. J Alcoholism Discussed At Conference in City "We're a health agency and we're concerned with the dis ease of alcoholism' and the people who suffer from it," according to Mrs. Marty Mann, representing the na tional council on alcoholism. She spoke at a public meet ing here last week sponsored by the Southern Oregon Al coholic Rehabilitation com mittee. . Ministers, welfare workers, public health officials, tuber culosis and health association spokesmen, police, medical so ciety members, and represen tatives of Alcoholics Anony mous were invited to the all- day sessions held at the First Methodist church. A member of the NCA na tional board, in New York Mrs. Mann was brought to Oregon by the Oregon state alcohol education committee to appear at meetings through out the state. The speaker has appeared world-wide in discussions on alcoholism and tuberculosis. Three Contentions It was noted that only a small percentage of those who drink, about 5 or 6 per cent, are those who "get into trou ble." Mrs. Mann presented three contentions of the NCA, including that alcoholism is a disease, and the alcoholic is a sick person; the alcoholic can be helped and it is worth while; and finally, that the effects of alcohol is a public health problem and therefore a public responsibility. The representative noted that a broad program of pub lic education in the alcoholic disease was necessary in or der to combat it. Alcoholism was declared the third most prevalent illness in the United States, following mental ill nesses and heart diseases. To day some five million persons have become victims of alco holism, she added. , Next Step Noted In furthuring its education al program, the NCA attempts to organize local councils or committees on alcohlism in every community. The com mittees are to provide ade quate facilities for the care and treatment of alcoholic- sick persons. Alcoholic infor mation centers are being es tablished to provide facts and assistance to anyone desiring it. - ' Procuring hospital beds for those suffering from al coholism is' the next step of the national organization-, Mrs. Mann said. It is hoped that hospitals will accept acute alcoholic patients on the same basis that they accept other patients. It is contended that alcoholism is "purely a medical matter" and can best be treated in a hospital. Also promoted by the NCA is the establishment of out patient, diagnostic and treat ment clinics for long-care, long-term therapy. Alcoholism may be divided into two parts the acute phase, which is extreme drunkeness; and the chronic phase, in which there may be no drunkeness, but during which the alcoholic is learning to live without al cohol. ' . ! Mrs. Mann noted that al coholics; Anonymous has been able to do more for the al coholics than any other meth od. I; is said to be one of the best forms of treatment for alcoholism and, in addition, one of the major resources that alcoholics have. Another advantage, the speaker noted, is that AA costs the partici pant nothing. PRAVDA SCORES SUCCESS Aldershot, England - (HPD -The successful Conservative party ..candidate in local elec tions last week was S. C. Pravda. 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