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Major battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill helped shape the Civil War in the West

PLEASANT HILL, La. — In the spring of 1864, northwest Louisiana became the center of one of the Civil War’s most ambitious and consequential Union offensives. Known as the Red River Campaign, the ...
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Little to eat and thin mud to drink : letters, diaries, and memoirs from the Red River campaigns, 1863-1864 / Gary D. Joiner, general editor

Introduction / Gary D. Joiner -- James A. Jarratt and the consolidated Crescent Regiment in the Red River Campaign of 1864 / edited by Gary D. Joiner -- A Vermont soldier's experience at the Battle of ...
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Red River Campaign initially aimed to take Shreveport

The Red River Campaign in spring 1864 initially aimed to take Shreveport, but instead of marching triumphantly to victory, Gen. Frederick Steele and his troops were running for their lives, fending ...