One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End The

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. In

Gary Dillard Joiner is an instructor of history and director of the Red River Regional Studies Center at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

Introduction

xiii

List of Maps

xx

Strategic Positions prior to the Campaign

1

(14)

Confederate Defenses on the Red River, 1863--64

15

(18)

Preparations

33

(12)

Anabasis

45

(30)

Through the Howling Wilderness

75

(18)

I Will Fight Banks If He Has a Million Men

93

(14)

The Safety of Our Whole Country Depends upon It

107

(16)

Steele's Dilemma

123

(14)

Katabasis

137

(22)

Colonel Bailey's Dam

159

(10)

Requiem for a Blunder

169

(8)

Selected Bibliography

177

(12)

Index

189

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One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End The Red River Campaign of 1864

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