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History Matters: Battle of Mansfield strategy has ties to classical history

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published April 8, 2014 at 7:36 AM CDT
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Commentator Gary Joiner remembers Gen. Richard Taylor, the mastermind behind the Battle of Mansfield and the hero of the Red River Campaign on the 150th anniversary.

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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