What was Grant's strategies on winning the war?

Grant's strategy, upon becoming overall commander, was an elaboration of Scott's Anaconda Plan. With the blockade firmly in place, he used the Army of the Potomac to fix Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in a defense of Richmond while he sent Sheridan through the Shenandoah Valley to cut them off from supplies, reinforcements, and intelligence; while he sent Sherman into the Deep South to destroy the South's infrastructure, crops, transportation, and communications, to starve the Army and deprive it of arms, ammunition, and every material needed to wage war.