Dark and bloody ground
Subtitle: the Battle of Mansfield and the forgotten Civil War in Louisiana
By: Thomas Ayres.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dallas, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Mansfield, Battle of, La., 1864.; Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Description: The story of the Union army's ill-fated Red River Campaign and its disastrous defeat at Mansfield, Dark and Bloody Ground chronicles one of the strangest and most ignoble defeats suffered by the Union forces. -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-273) and index.