Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana
- ISBN-10
- 0878331808
- ISBN-13
- 9780878331802
- Category
- History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Pub.
- Author
- Thomas Ayres
Description
The story of the Union army's ill-fated Red River Campaign and its disastrous defeat at Mansfield, Dark and Bloody Ground chronicles one of the strangest and most ignoble defeats suffered by the Union forces.
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- 2013-08-06
- 230 pages
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- PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING
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- 2012
- 310 pages
- Paperback
- Westholme Pub Llc
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