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Red River campaign order of battle: Confederate

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ115820658 ↗
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The following is the organization of the Confederate forces engaged in the Red River campaign, during the American Civil War in 1864. Order of battle shows the army organization during the campaign. The Union order of battle is listed separately.

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“Red River campaign order of battle: Confederate” enters the record as something interesting. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what River, campaign and order can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1864—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around River, campaign and order.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q115820658. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1864.

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This entry incorporates text from “Red River campaign order of battle: Confederate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.