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One damn blunder from beginning to end : the Red River Campaign of 1864 / Gary Dillard Joiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joiner, Gary D.
- Series:
- American crisis series ; no. 11.
- The American crisis series ; no. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Red River Expedition, 1864.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2003.
- Summary:
- In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana.
- Contents:
- Strategic positions prior to the campaign
- Confederate defenses on the Red River, 1863-1864
- Preparations
- Anabasis
- Through the howling wilderness
- I will fight Banks if he has a million men
- The safety of our whole country depends upon it
- Steele's dilemma
- Katabasis
- Colonel Bailey's dam
- Requiem for a blunder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0842029362
- 0842029370
- OCLC:
- 50270276
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