Union general Nathaniel Banks was blamed for the failure of the Red River Campaign. This series of battles took place between March and May of 1864.
The Ohio River was not used by General Grant in the Union campaign in the west.
The Tennessee River and the Cumberland River were used by General Grant in the Union campaign.
The Ohio River was not used by General Grant in the Union campaign in the west.
The Red River Campaign, fought in 1864 during the American Civil War, ultimately resulted in a Confederate victory. Union forces, led by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, aimed to capture Shreveport, Louisiana, but faced strong resistance from Confederate troops under General Richard Taylor. After a series of engagements, including the Battle of Mansfield and the Battle of Pleasant Hill, the Union army retreated, marking the campaign as a failure for the North.
The Potomac River
The Tennesee and Cumberoland River.
Pruth River Campaign happened in 1711.
The Battle of Sabine Crossroads-Pleasant Hill, where a Union Army led by General Nathaniel Banks was defeated by General Richard Taylor's Confederate Army. It was part of the last major campaign west of the Mississippi. It was fought on April 8-10, 1864 and saw the failure of the Federal attempt to capture Shreveport and deeply penetrate in the Trans-Mississippi going up the Red River.
Ulysses S. Grant was the general who was responsible for taking the Mississippi River. During the Vicksburg Campaign, Grant gained control of the river, a major Confederate defeat. Grant and Confederate Lt. General Pemberton clashed in the Battle of Vicksburg.
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In the Spring of 1864, Porter personally led the naval force involved in the Union's Red River campaign. The force ascended the Red River to make a combined forces effort with the army of Major General Nathaniel Banks.
This campaign is called the Peninsular (peninsula) Campaign because the action was fought on the peninsula of land bounded on the north by the York River, the south by the James River and extending out to Chesapeake Bay. The Battles of Yorktown (which was not a battle but a siege that produced next to no results for McClellan) Williamsburg, Hanover Court House, Seven Pines, and the battles of The Seven Days were all fought during this expedition. The thrust of the campaign was the capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia but it ended in failure.