Free digital audio book downloads Decisions of the Red River Campaign: The Fifteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation 9781621909163 MOBI by Michael S. Lang (English literature)

To Download or Read This book click on the link button below :

➡ [Download book]

➡ [Read online book]

Decisions of the Red River Campaign: The Fifteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation Michael S. Lang ebook

• Page: 288
• Format: pdf / epub / kindle
• ISBN: 9781621909163
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press

By the time of the Red River Campaign, which occurred between March 10 and May 22, 1864, Federal victory in the American Civil War was nearly assured. This final Union offensive in the trans-Mississippi theater was launched to capture Shreveport, a strategic river port and Confederate military complex. The fall of Shreveport would split Confederate forces, allowing the Federals to encircle and destroy the Confederate Army in western Louisiana and southern Arkansas as well as open a gateway to an invasion of Texas. But the dense piney woods and swamps of Louisiana made for difficult maneuvering, and both sides made severe tactical mistakes, leading General William Tecumseh Sherman to declare the Red River Campaign “one damn blunder from beginning to end.”

Decisions of the Red River Campaign explores the critical decisions made by Confederate and Federal commanders during the campaign and how these decisions shaped its outcome. Rather than offering a history of the operation, Michael S. Lang hones in on a sequence of decisions made by commanders on both sides of the contest to provide a blueprint of the campaign at its tactical core. Identifying and exploring the critical decisions in this way allows students of Civil War battles and campaigns to progress from a knowledge of what happened to a mature grasp of why events happened.

Complete with maps and a driving tour, Decisions of the Red River Campaign is an indispensable primer, and readers looking for a concise introduction to the campaign can tour this sacred ground—or read about it at their leisure—with key insights into the campaign and a deeper understanding of the Civil War itself.

Decisions of the Red River Campaign is the twenty-second in a series of books that explores the critical decisions of major campaigns and battles of the Civil War.

    Books about Lang, Michael S.
    front cover of Decisions of the Red River Campaign. Decisions of the Red River Campaign. The Fifteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation. Michael 
    Why Normandy Still Matters: Seventy-Five Years On,
    Operation Overlord took place seventy-five years ago. Operation Overlord was strategically audacious and required an amazing amount of 
    Decisions of the Red River Campaign: The Fifteen Critical
    Decisions of the Red River Campaign: The Fifteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation(Command Decisions in America's Ci. 著者：Lang, Michael S.
    Decisions of the Red River Campaign: The Fifteen Critical
    Decisions of the Red River Campaign explores the critical decisions made by Confederate and Federal commanders during the campaign and how these decisions 
    Decisions of the Red River Campaign: The Fifteen Critical
    Decisions of the Red River Campaign is the twenty-second in a series of books that explores the critical decisions of major campaigns and battles of the Civil 
    Red River campaign
    Union strategy · Capture of Shreveport, the state capital and headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department. · Destroy Confederate forces in the District of