spilled. some of the oil entered a creek that feeds cato lake near shreveport louisiana. meanwhile, almost five years later, louisiana is suffering from the 2010 bp oil spill. they will tell you everything s good. not true. the state reopened fishing grounds on december 10th. but if you talk to local fishermen, that s just not the case. i was looking at my figures before i came here. for the first 18 days of the month before bp in 2009 we did 2 million pounds and this year we did 129,000. we are down to about 4%. and it s a tough situation. it s hard to just imagine getting 4% of your check and see how good you d be doing. none of the 2014 events will faze republicans. they are going to come forward
kiver campaign was the only campaign that the union lost. coming up, author gary joyner on one of the union s lowest points in the civil war. the red river campaign of 1864. and then about 45 minutes in we ll go to louisiana state university shreveport campus for a look inside their archives, james smith noel s collection of over 200,000 books housed there. agm in the collection, it is probably going to be this one, it s one of the books we re most proud of. and we travel around the city with neil johnson, author of shreveport and boaz your city which gives many of the different areas and landmarks of this city with a population of about 90,000. all these stories this more as booktv travels to shreveport, louisiana. the red river campaign was the only campaign many that pivotal l year of 1864 that the union lost, and they didn t want to write about it. it was an embarrassment. and the south was in no position to brag on it because they were in the process of losing