FRANCIS. We reached New-Orleans safely about noon on the 21st. The Red River expedition of 1864 may be considered concluded. As the mail closes in a few minutes, I am compelled to close ...

No General but BANKS was blamed for the campaign. STONE is pronounced without fault in this matter. At the time the messenger left, eight iron-clad gunboats were above the falls, unable to reach ...

Union forces in the spring of 1864 launched a joint Army-Navy incursion up the Red River in a bid for control of western Louisiana and Arkansas. It would be the last major campaign by the Union ...

No buildings predating 1864 can be found in Alexandria ... whose troops were occupying the city during the Union's Red River Campaign. Others say he gave no such order. Before names can be ...

While the entire Red River campaign of early 1864 witnessed failures of command on both sides. Johnson displays high regard for Gen. Richard Taylor (the son of President Zachary Taylor ...

Allentown, PA (18103) Today Showers likely to start with a thunderstorm and a heavy downpour through early to mid-morning, then becoming partly sunny by afternoon; a humid day..

The site commemorates the Union's Red River campaign of 1864, which culminated in the Battle of Mansfield and a retreat downriver (Alexandria was burned as federal troops retreated). The forts ...

The team they were playing as pictured in the 1864 lithograph could very well ... The initial success of the Red River Campaign had long disappeared and Gen. Nathaniel Bank’s Army was in retreat ...

Marking the locations for three of those engagements are the Red River Campaign State Parks ... where fighting took place on April 25, 1864. It was preceded by the April 18 combat at Poison ...

It will be told by Shelby Harriel, who will present “Forbidden, Hidden and Forgotten: Women Soldiers in the Civil War’s Red River Campaign of 1864.” A special dinner theater titled ...