Something new - or, rather, something more than 160 years old - will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.
The document, signed in 1861, was Lincoln’s order launching the famous “Anaconda Plan," which entailed the naval blockade of ports in Southern states that seceded from the Union.
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 .