Civil War Battles in Texas - Stroud/Lopez

  • Nueces Battle

    Nueces Battle
  • Corpus Christi Battle

  • Port Lavaca Battle

  • Battle at Galveston Island

  • Sabine Pass

    About 6:00 AM on the morning of September 8 1863, a Union flotilla of four gun boats and seven troop transports steemed into Sabine Pass and up the Sabine River with the intention of reducing Fort Griffin and landing troops to begin occupying Texas.
  • Laredo Battle

  • Mansfield

  • Dove Creek Battle

  • Palmito Ranch

    Palmito Ranch
    Since 1865, an gentelman's agreement precluded fighting between Union and Conferderate forces on the Rio Grande. In spite of this agreement, Col. Theodore H. Barrett, comanding forces at Brazos Santiago Texas, dispatched an expedition, composed of 250 men of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment and 50 men of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. David Branson, to the mainland, on May 1865, to attack reported rebel outposts and camps.