Anyone not familiar with the journal "Civil War Regiments" should try to find a copy of Volume 4, No. 2 (1994). It is a special issue "The Red River Campaign: Essays on Union and Confederate Leadership." The articles are "Introduction," by Edwin C. Bearss; "A Colonel Gains His Wreath: Col. Henry Gray's Louisiana Brigade at Mansfield," by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.; "The Union Naval Expedition on the Red River," by Gary D. Joiner and Charles E. Vetter; "Col. James H. Beard and the Consolidated Crescent Regiment," by Theodore P. Savas; and "The Red River Campaign Letters of Lt. Charles Washington Kennedy, 156th New York Volunteer Infantry," edited by Ed Steers. The issue also contains several previously unpublished Confederate battle reports.

In my humble opinion, the best book on the subject is Ludwell Johnson's "Red River Campaign." It does not contain extensive accounts of all of the battles but certainly puts the campaign in its proper context.