 Complete the following phrase:  Brigadier General General Alexander T. Hawthorn, a Camden native, had been given the task of organizing the citys defenses. From January to March Confederate troops and slave labor worked to develop a series of five redoubts, mainly to protect the southern and western land-based approaches to the city. Union Major General Frederick Steele, in command of the forces occupying Little Rock, was ordered to move southwest to effect a junction with Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks Red River Campaign, a push to take Shreveport, Louisiana and eventually gain a Union foothold in Texas. Steeles force left Little Rock on March 23, 1864, passing through thinly-populated southwestern Arkansas. His advance was blunted at the 