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Through the Howling Wilderness - The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West (Paperback)
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Through the Howling Wilderness - The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West (Paperback)
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The Red River Campaign of 1864 was a bold attempt to send large
Union army and navy forces deep into the interior of Louisiana,
seize the Rebel capital of the state, and defeat the Confederate
army guarding the region enabling uninhibited access to Texas to
the west. Through the Howling Wilderness emphasizes the Confederate
defensive measures and the hostile attitudes of commanders toward
each other as well as toward their enemies. Gary D. Joiner contends
that the campaign was important to both the Union army and navy in
the course of the war and afterward, altering the political
landscape in the fall presidential elections in 1864. The campaign
redirected troops originally assigned to operate in Georgia during
the pivotal Atlanta campaign, thus delaying the end of the war by
weeks or even months, and it forced the navy to refocus its inland
or "brown water" naval tactics. The Red River Campaign ushered in
deep resentment toward the repatriation of the State of Louisiana
after the war ended. Profound consequences included legal,
political, and sociological issues that surfaced in Congressional
hearings as a result of the Union defeat. The efforts of the
Confederates to defend northern Louisiana have been largely
ignored. Their efforts at building an army and preparations to trap
the union naval forces before the campaign began have been all but
lost in the literature of the Civil War. Joiner's book will remedy
this lack of historical attention. Replete with in-depth coverage
on the geography of the region, the Congressional hearings after
the Campaign, and the Confederate defenses in the Red River Valley,
Through the Howling Wilderness will appeal to Civil War historians
and buffs alike.
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