Texas 17th Infantry (Confederate)
8/4/64
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Mansfield
The Red River Campaign of 1864 was one General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant's initiatives to apply simultaneous pressure on Confederate armies along five separate fronts from Louisiana to Virginia. In addition to defeating the defending Confederate army, the campaign sought to confiscate cotton stores from plantations along the river and to give support to pro-Union governments in Louisiana. By early April, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Union army was about 150 miles up the Red River threatening Shreveport. C…READ MORE
26/5/65
Mustered Out - Texas 17th Infantry - Texas
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