The records show that General Grant was not in favor of the Red River campaign in the Spring of 1864. Despite being general in chief, he gave way to President Lincoln's and Henry W. Halleck's plans on Louisiana . The campaign led by Major Genera Nathaniel Banks was lengthy and in the end had two negatives. No gains of any substance were the result. Banks lost a definitive battle at Shreveport and the campaign delayed Grant's plans for Mobile, Alabama. In order to resume the Union's seemingly momentum, he ordered Banks to abandon Texas altogether and leave only a Union garrison at the mouth of the Rio Grand River. If possible, Banks and the Union navy had Mobile as their target. As events turned out, Mobile would be safe much longer than Grant preferred.