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ONE DAMN BLUNDER FROM BEGINNING TO END: THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN OF 1864

 
Gary Joiner
 
1st Printing
Scholarly Resources 2002

2nd Printing
Rowman & Littlefield 2005
Hardcover, Paperback

 
Historian and avid researcher Gary Dillard Joiner possesses a keen regional familiarity that enabled him to author a masterful narrative history of the 1864 Red River Campaign. This is one of the Civil War’s major amphibious operations, and Joiner’s appreciation of the river’s vagaries, and his deep knowledge of naval vessels, river boats and personnel provide a special dimension.
 
BOOK INDEX

CONTENTS

Introduction

List of Maps

Chapter 1 - Strategic Positions Prior to the Campaign

Chapter 2 - Confederate Defenses on  the Red River, 1863-64

Chapter 3 - Preparations

Chapter 4 - Anabasis

Chapter 5 - Through the Howling Wilderness

Chapter 6 - I Will Firght Banks If He Has A Millioin Men

Chapter 7 - The Safety of Our Whole Country Depends upon It

Chapter 8 - Steele's Dilemma

Chapter 9 - Katabasis

Chapter 10 - Colonel Bailey's Dam

Chapter 11 - Requiem for a Blunder

 

 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

Award Albert Castel Award
Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
   
Award A.M. Pate Award
Texas Civil War Round Table
(Fort Worth, Texas)
   
REVIEWS
North & South
Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the Trans-Mississippi theater and 1864 campaigns in general.
 
Military Heritage
The reader of this fine and detailed monograph will agree with Sherman that the generally overlooked Red River campaign was “one damn blunder from beginning to end.”
 

 

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