One damn blunder from beginning to end
Subtitle: the Red River Campaign of 1864
By: Gary Dillard Joiner.
Series: The American crisis series ;; no. 11
Publisher: Scholarly Resources
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Red River Expedition, 1864.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Strategic positions prior to the campaign; title: Confederate defenses on the Red River, 1863-1864; title: Preparations; title: Anabasis; title: Through the howling wilderness; title: I will fight Banks if he has a million men; title: The safety of our whole country depends upon it; title: Steele's dilemma; title: Katabasi; title: Colonel Bailey's dam; title: Requiem for a blunder.