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History Matters: Richard Taylor's Finest Day

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published July 23, 2019 at 7:45 AM CDT
Richard Taylor, CSA
Photographer Unknown - Taken between 1860 and 1870
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Richard Taylor, CSA
Dr. Gary Joiner
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LSU Shreveport
Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, July 23, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner looks at General Richard Taylor and the history behind the Red River Campaign.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.
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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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