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  • Red River 2.0: Canby tries to revive the campaign

    Books about the 1864 Red River campaign typically end in late May, when U.S. forces reached the Mississippi.  But there was a final act.  The following is the epilogue missing from existing campaign books… Since the beginning of the campaign, Gen. Grant had felt uneasy about Gen. Banks and about the fractured command structure along […]

  • “A.J. Smith’s Veterans” or was it non-veterans?

    Recently, while reading about the 1864 Red River campaign, a few things written about the detachment from the Army of the Tennessee commanded by General A.J. Smith left me scratching my head. The first thing that caught my eye was a statement by Craig Symonds in Lincoln and His Admirals wherein Symonds calls Smith’s men […]

  • Short Takes

    If you missed Gary Joiner’s interview on C-SPAN on his book One Damn Blunder From Beginning To End: The Red River Campaign of 1864  you can catch it on the web. The book’s on my list to read, based on good reviews and the interview. This campaign ought to get more attention than it does […]

  • Review: Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War

    http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWWest/redriver.htm Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War. Ludwell H. Johnson. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press; Reprint edition (April 1993). 317 pp. 11 maps. Nearly fifty years after the book was first written, by most accounts Ludwell Johnson’s Red River Campaign: Politics & Cotton in the Civil War remains the best […]

  • Through The Howling Wilderness:The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West by Gary D. Joiner

    I did a search for books on the Red River Campaign today, and I was surprised to find that Gary Joiner, already an author of one book on that campaign, has decided to do another through the University of Tennessee Press. By the look of things, this book seems to be much more detailed than […]