Category: Red River Campaign

Categories: United States Civil War Conflicts

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The Red River Campaign or Red River Expedition comprised a series of battles fought along the Red River in Louisiana during the American Civil War from March 10 to May 22, 1864. The campaign was a Union initiative, fought between approximately 30,000 Union troops under the command of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, and Confederate troops under the command of Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, whose strength varied from 6,000 to 15,000.

The campaign was primarily the plan of Union General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck, and a diversion from Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's plan to surround the main Confederate armies by using Banks's Army of the Gulf to capture Mobile, Alabama. It was a Union failure, characterized by poor planning and mismanagement, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished. Taylor successfully defended the Red River Valley with a smaller force. However, the decision of Taylor's immediate superior, General Edmund Kirby Smith, to send half of Taylor's force north to Arkansas rather than south in pursuit of the retreating Banks after the Battle of Mansfield and the Battle of Pleasant Hill, led to bitter enmity between Taylor and Smith.


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12 Apr 1828 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States - 08 Nov 1882 photo

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06 May 1825 Pennsville, Morgan, Ohio, United States - 21 Mar 1867 photo
22 Feb 1847 Jackson Parish, Louisiana, United States - 03 Jun 1897 photo
21 May 1825 Norway, Oxford, Maine, United States - 11 Dec 1896 photo
20 Aug 1819 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - 23 May 1899
23 Aug 1842 St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan, United States - 01 Nov 1929 photo

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14 Apr 1838 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 20 Jul 1921 photo

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12 Aug 1829 Lincolton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States - 13 Sep 1902 photo

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08 Jun 1814 Amelia County, Virginia, United States - 12 Apr 1864 photo

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02 Nov 1846 Greensburg Twp, Trumbul, Ohio, United States - 05 Dec 1930

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09 Sep 1826 Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn, Indiana, United States - 16 Nov 1908 photo

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05 Dec 1818 New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, United States - 11 Jul 1867
26 Feb 1838 Casey, Kentucky, United States - 14 Aug 1916 photo

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Sep 1822 Middletown, Windsor, Vermont, United States - 30 Apr 1864
13 Nov 1829 Kentucky, United States - 27 Feb 1901 photo
abt 28 Sep 1831 Ripley, Maine, United States - 08 Sep 1864
15 Jul 1837 Jefferson, New York, United States - 18 Aug 1902 photo

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abt 1842 Bolivar, Allegany County, New York, United States - 30 Jul 1870 photo
28 Sep 1818 Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States - 28 Jul 1881 photo
28 Apr 1815 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA - 30 Jan 1897 photo
08 Dec 1829 Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - 04 May 1864 photo
20 Jun 1833 Frederick, Maryland, United States - 22 Mar 1894

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09 Feb 1830 Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States - 02 Jan 1876
03 Jul 1828 Davidson County, Tennessee - 06 Apr 1865 photo




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