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Continued from Part 1. In testimony before Congress’s Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Admiral Porter boasted that “The Red River expedition was originally proposed by General Sherman and myself.”1 Porter’s statement is presumptuous — there was an earlier plan by Halleck2 — but Sherman did raise the idea to Grant’s Chief of […]
Grant & The Red River Campaign, Part 2
April 5th, 2015 · 5 Comments
Categories: Campaigns & Battles · Miscellaneous · Trans-Mississippi Theater
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