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The location of a significant Civil War battlefield, Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site tells the story of Confederate Lt. Richard “Dick” Dowling and his 46 men who thwarted a Union assault on Sabine Pass, a primary Texas port for Confederate shipments of supplies and vital to the war effort.
The update includes information on Sabine Pass Battleground and seven additional THC state historic sites associated with the Civil War, the Texas Civil War Monument series, Palmito Ranch Battlefield National Historic Landmark, and much more.
On September 8, 1863, the battle of Sabine Pass turned back one of several Union attempts to invade and occupy part of Texas during the Civil War. Sabine Pass Battleground offers 50-amp hook ups for RVs with a total of 5 spots.
On June 18, Union General Gordon Granger arrived at Galveston with 2,000 Federal troops to occupy Texas. On the following day, he officially announced that the war was over and that the enslaved African American population in Texas was free. Locally and nationally, this event became known as Juneteenth.
East Texas gave the most support to secession, and the only east Texas counties in which significant numbers of people opposed secession were Angelina County, Fannin County, and Lamar County, although these counties supplied many men to Texas regiments, including the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment; the 1st Texas Partisan Rangers; 3rd, 4th, 9th ...
The Battle of Palmito Ranch was the final land battle of the American Civil War. It was fought May 12–13, 1865, along the banks of the Rio Grande, 13 miles east of Brownsville and 10 miles from the Union-held seaport of Los Brazos de Santiago at Texas’ southern tip.
Located in Smith County near Tyler, Texas, Camp Ford was closely tied to support operations for Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War.
