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

by Gary D. Joiner

Book Overview

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 a year of stellar triumphs by Union armies across the South, the Red River Campaign stands out as a colossal failure. General William Tecumseh Sherman's scathing summation describes it best, "One...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00GILEA3S
• ISBN13: 9780842029377
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.1"