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And I'm Tracy.

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As y'all will recall with last week's show,

we started a new story arc on the 1864 Red River campaign.

We said that the origins of the campaign could be found in diplomacy and in politics and

cotton.

On the diplomatic front, the Lincoln administration wanted to plant the US flag in Texas

in order to counter French imperial ambitions in Mexico

that might include an alliance with the Confederacy,

which would make the job of putting down the rebellion that much harder for the Federals.

So a push up the Red River in Louisiana

and the capture of Shreveport would place the Yankees

in a position to invade Texas.

With regard to cotton in politics,

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