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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, October 30, 2009.
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The Great Comet of 1881
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Trouvelot Astromical Drawings Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery
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Richard Taylor, Red River Campaign (Bergeron, 1982)

Scholarship
Arthur W. Bergeron Jr., “General Richard Taylor as a Military Commander,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 23, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 41.
Taylor's early campaigns in Louisiana produced few large battles, but his men won practically every engagement they fought. He retreated only when outflanked or opposed by superior numbers. Even in retreat Taylor's army harassed and slowed the enemy's advance. A typical Taylor operation consisted of a speedy concentration of forces from several points and a successful attack against a part of the enemy's army. Taylor's army, though small, had confidence not only in its commander but in itself.
General Richard Taylor as a Military Commander

General Richard Taylor as a Military Commander

Richard Taylor, Red River Campaign (Bergeron, 1982)
Type: Description
Citation:
Arthur W. Bergeron Jr., “General Richard Taylor as a Military Commander,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 23, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 41.
Body Summary:
Taylor's early campaigns in Louisiana produced few large battles, but his men won practically every engagement they fought. He retreated only when outflanked or opposed by superior numbers. Even in retreat Taylor's army harassed and slowed the enemy's advance. A typical Taylor operation consisted of a speedy concentration of forces from several points and a successful attack against a part of the enemy's army. Taylor's army, though small, had confidence not only in its commander but in itself. His operations raised the morale of the state's people and gave them the desire to support him and his army in defending the state. … Taylor's greatest triumphs came in the Red River Campaign of 1864. As early as January of that year he correctly predicted that the Federals would conduct joint operations up the Red River and in Arkansas against Shreveport. He began preparing for the campaign and suggested to his superior, General Edmund Kirby Smith, how the Confederates should construct their strategy. He pointed out that it would be necessary to concentrate available forces against one of the enemy columns or face being overpowered by each.

Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

Red River Campaign (Joiner, 2006)
Type: Description
Citation:
Gary D. Joiner, Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006), xvii-xviii.
Body Summary:
During the warm, humid spring of 1864, deep in the interior of the pine barrens and along the sinewy streams of the Red River Valley in northern Louisiana, a drama unfolded that briefly lifted the veil of obscurity from that region west of the Mississippi River. The Union army initiated a bold attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Louisiana at Shreveport. The campaign was considered a high priority by President Lincoln, [Major General William] Sherman, and others in the highest circles of the United States government and military.….The operation taught the army and navy lessons in the critical importance of expanded cooperation between the armed services and demonstrated other scenarios that were unlikely to produce success. And while the Union had tactical and numerical advantages, the campaign proved that overwhelming power is not necessarily a guarantee of victory. The potent combination of politics and forceful personalities also influence military outcomes, often in counterproductive ways.

Red River Campaign (Joiner, 2006)

Scholarship
Gary D. Joiner, Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006), xvii-xviii.
During the warm, humid spring of 1864, deep in the interior of the pine barrens and along the sinewy streams of the Red River Valley in northern Louisiana, a drama unfolded that briefly lifted the veil of obscurity from that region west of the Mississippi River. The Union army initiated a bold attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Louisiana at Shreveport.
Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

Governor Wise takes over the Winchester and Potomac Railroad in preparation for the execution of John Brown

Governor Henry Wise of Virginia, fearing the worst reaction to the approaching execution of John Brown in Charlestown, commandeered the Winchester and Potomac Railroad. He had earlier dispatched the Richmond militia regiment to the town.  He also advised Virginians to remain home and be vigilant of their property on the day Brown was to die.  (By John Osborne)  
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