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The Red River campaign, also known as the Red River expedition, [1] was a major Union offensive campaign in the Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War, the campaign taking place from March 10 to May 22, 1864.
The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged in the Red River campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle shows the army organization during the campaign. The Union order of battle is listed separately. [1]
The following is the organization of the Union forces engaged in the Red River campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign. [1] [2] The Confederate order of battle is listed separately.
Despite some Confederate disappointment in not destroying, through casualties or capture, most of the U.S. forces engaged in the Red River Campaign, the Confederates had a considerable tactical victory. The Federals lost over 8,000 men in the Red River Campaign, including the Camden Expedition, and returned to their starting points at the end ...
The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United ... but limited to a handful of larger expeditions due to manpower limitations. During the Civil War ...
In 1852, he was in charge of the expedition that first reached the headwaters of both forks of the Red River. (It was on this expedition that he met McClellan.) In 1857, Marcy accompanied Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnston on the expedition against the Mormons in Utah. Here he distinguished himself on a forced march through the Rockies in ...
Red River Expedition (1856), by the U.S. Army up the Red River of the North from the Mississippi River into the Minnesota Territory (future State of Minnesota) Red River Campaign , up the Red River of the South through Louisiana, past Shreveport into Texas during the American Civil War
Map of the 1806 Red River Expedition's route. Published by Nich. King, 1806. On April 19, 1806, the now-24-member party (Freeman and his two assistants; Sparks, who commanded the military party, with two officers, seventeen privates, and a servant) pushed off in two flat-bottomed barges and a pirogue from Fort Adams, near Natchez, Mississippi, and turned into the Red River to go upstream to ...