5. Read the quotation below and answer Question #8.

"SIR: I have read and carefully considered your plan for a campaign, and now send you confidentially my own views... We will rely greatly on a complete blockade of the...Southern ports on the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.... we also propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi River and there by drive a wedge through the center of the enemy...it will be necessary that New Orleans should be
strongly occupied and securely held until the war is ended...the people who support our government....will urge instant and vigorous action, even if a slow and deliberate strategy is best. Finally, we should make an urgent push to capture the enemy's capital in Richmond to assist the strangulation of the enemy."


5. The letter above describes_________.

a. the strategy of the Confederacy to win the Civil War

b. the strategy of the Union to win the Civil War

c. the result of the Battle of Vicksburg

d. Sherman's March to the Sea