Other historians have claimed that the campaign was also motivated by concern regarding the 25,000 French troops in Mexico sent by Napoleon III and under the command of Emperor Maximillian.
He participated in all the principal battles fought in the Trans-Mississippi Department after June, 1862, including Prairie Grove, Mansfield, Jenkins' Ferry, Poison Springs, Marks Mill, and all the battles incident to Gen. Dick Taylor's Red River Campaign against General Banks.
The unit saw action in the Siege of Port Hudson and the Red River Campaign.
He returned to his plantation, but was soon forced to flee upriver by the Red River Campaign, soldiers of which burned the plantation in May.
Timothy O'Donoghue (born 1841, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Red River Campaign.
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In their absence, the non-veterans, numbering about 70, accompanied the 35th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regimenton the Red River Campaign and was in battle at Lake Chicot.
In March and April of 1864, Shelby's men harassed and skirmished with the Union Army force under the command of Major General Frederick Steele during his Camden Expedition, part of the Red River Campaign.
During the Red River Campaign, Holder led the 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment Dismounted, also known as the First Indian Texas Regiment which kept Union forces out of the Red River and new areas of Texas for the rest of the war.
Though Blake had lost his ship, he had frustrated Semmes' plan to resupply his ship from captured merchantmen off Galveston, and then sail to the mouth of the Mississippi River to interdict Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River Campaign.
Gilbert and a detachment of the XVI Corps (known as the Right Wing-XVI Corps commanded by Smith) were transferred to the Department of the Gulf under Nathaniel P. Banks for the Red River Campaign.
In 1864, the Camden Expedition (part of a larger military operation, the Red River Campaign), under the command of General Frederick Steele, marched his union troops along the Old Camden Road that passed through Leola after his supplies were depleted and Gen. Kirby's Confederates were on his rear flank as they approached the Jenkins Ferry on the Saline River.
Historian John D. Winters in The Civil War in Louisiana (1963) documents the arrival in May 1864 of Federal troops in Morganza under General Nathaniel P. Banks, recently defeated in the Battle of Mansfield in De Soto Parish and abandoning the Red River Campaign.