From Wikipedia.
1. Destroy Richard Taylor's Confederate Army.
2. Capture Shreveport, Louisiana, Confederate headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department.
3. Control of the Red River.
4. The occupation of East Texas.
5. Confiscate as many as 100,000 bales of cotton from plantations and warehouses along the Red River.
6. Organize a pro-Union government in the region.
There are some historians who also believe the presence of 25,000 French troops in Mexico and Emperor Maximillian also had something to do with it.
--Old Secesh
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