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 ...

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It fought well, most notably at Vicksburg, Miss., before being assigned to the Red River Campaign. On April 8, 1864, at the Battle of Mansfield, south of Shreveport, La., Southern forces routed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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..

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 ...