|The Red River Campaign was the greatest failure because Gen.
Nathaniel Banks and Gen. Federick Steele did not unite forces in
Louisiana and invade northeast Texas. Another failure in the
same proportion was the failure of the federal forces in
Arkansas and Kansas to invade north Texas through Indian
Territory along the Texas Road. After the Confederate defeat at
the Battle of Middle Boggy in Indian Territory, the federal
general staff in Fort Smith was decieved into thinking that Col.
Stand Watie and Gen. Douglas H. Cooper was in command of at
least 6,000 Confederate North Texas and Indian troops at Boggy
Depot, 25 miles north of Colbert's Ferry on the Red River. In
1862, Gen. Albert Pike resigned and his troops at Fort McCulloch
were sent to southern Arkansas, however the federal general
staff was still unsure of the Confederate troop strength in
Indian Territory south of the Canadian River. The Battle of
Middle Boggy on February 14, 1864 was where Capt. Adam Nail and
90 Confederate troops of the Choctaw an