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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524854403321

Autore

Johnson Ludwell H

Titolo

Red River Campaign : Politics and Cotton in the Civil War

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

1-4214-3444-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (318 pages :) : illustrations)

Soggetti

Finance, Public

Finance

Cotton trade

Cotton trade - Confederate States of America

Finance, Public - Confederate States of America

Red River Expedition, 1864

History

Electronic books.

United States Confederate States of America

United States

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1958

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Genesis of the Campaign -- Concerning cotton -- The Campaign begins -- Banks finds the enemy -- Taylor is disappointed at Pleasant Hill -- The Federals go hungry in Arkansas -- Banks retreats again -- A pause and another retreat -- The end of the Campaign.

Sommario/riassunto

Detailed account of the disastrous Union foray into Arkansas and Louisiana, with an analysis of the political, economic, and ideological factors which influenced the campaign.