Red River Campaign | Wikipedia audio article
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Red River Campaign


00:01:10 1 Union objectives
00:02:35 2 Planning
00:04:44 3 Opposing forces
00:04:53 3.1 Union
00:05:47 3.2 Confederate
00:07:11 4 Battles
00:11:09 4.1 Battle of Mansfield
00:14:19 4.2 Battle of Pleasant Hill
00:16:01 5 Smith splits the Confederate forces
00:17:50 6 Banks retreats
00:19:38 7 Conclusion
00:21:10 8 Notes
00:21:19 9 References (General)
00:21:28 10 References (Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives)



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SUMMARY
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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.