However, a statue and a plaque at Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park mark what is thought to have been the site of the fort. Once done, the Army force would march east, presumably destroying the rail line as it went, and attack Beaumont. A In anticipation of another possible federal assault, Fort Griffin was strengthened with several captured Parrott rifles and temporarily reinforced. October 16 - John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Now West Virginia)October 18 - U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry and capture John Brown The Union plan was to send Union Navy warships from the Mississippi up the tributary Red River, which was navigable upstream as far as where the boundaries of the Confederate states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas came together. Dowling's well practiced Irish-Texan artillerymen, whose chosen and officially approved unit name was "Jefferson Davis Guards", had placed range-stakes in the two narrow and shallow (5-to-7 feet or 1.5-to-2.1 m) river channels.
1, Article 7. The medals were hung on green ribbons, and presented to the members of the Davis Guard.
[4] Under the immediate command of Lieutenant Richard W. Dowling, the Davis Guards had mounted their unit's six old smoothbore cannon on the elevated platform of the small earthen fort. From 1876 to 1885, thousands of Texas longhorns carved the Great Western Cattle Trail from San Antonio, through Fort Griffin, and on to Dodge City, Kansas. A small artillery was included. Official State of Texas Longhorn at Fort Griffin.
Crocker's squadron had no local river pilots, only general knowledge of the river's channels, no assurance of locations of the constantly varying depths especially of large oyster-shell "reefs" or "banks" between the river's two channels. The Confederates captured Clifton and Sachem with a total of 13 heavy cannon, including at least two new potent Parrott rifles, which were handed over to Leon Smith's Texas Marine Department. Besides Clifton, Crocker's advance squadron included Granite City, Sachem, and Arizona, all recently commissioned ironclad warships. The fort’s small force of 44 men, under command of Lt. Richard W. Dowling, disabled two ships, captured the gunboat Clifton with about 200 prisoners, and forced the Union flotilla to retire. reset. [12][13] The official Confederate silver metals were presented in a public ceremony a year later. This engagement was to be the largest amphibious assault on enemy territory in the history of the U.S. military up to that date. Troops from Fort Griffin, including units of the Buffalo Soldiers and Tonkawa scouts, participated in all the decisive campaigns that ended Kiowa and Comanche domination of northern Texas. Colonel W. H. Griffin, although this was not shown on Union maps since the First Battle of Sabine Pass in late September 1862. The Regiment took posts in the Indian Territory in 1875.
In September 1863 four Union gunboats, leading a strong amphibious invasion force, attacked Fort Griffin. Banks's original intent was to launch a combined Army-Navy campaign in northwest Louisiana. [3] The U.S.S. The key U.S. Navy target in the First Battle of Sabine Pass was the original earthworks thrown up on the Texas bank of the Sabine River about three miles (4.8 km) south of Sabine City, a tiny town with some wharfs on the east side of its main street.
In 1872, a military inspection was conducted at Fort Griffin and the post was declared “unfit for human habitation.” This was primarily due to the fact that many of the buildings on the frontier fort offered minimal protection from the elements because they were built with rawhide lumber, which had a tendency to warp and crack. In production since 1938, the Fandangle is staged in an acre-sized amphitheater with a cast and crew of more than 400 Albany locals. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/fort-griffin-QCF06. $3 Per Person, Family Fee In addition, Houston residents raised funds to provide medals to the Guard; the Davis Guards Medals were made from silver Mexican pesos by smoothing off the coins, then hand-stamping and hand-engraving on one side, the battle name and date and on the other side the initials "D G" and a cross pattée. Clifton approached in the lead, ascending the Texas channel at full speed. Yes, I would like to begin receiving history-rich content, news, and updates from TSHA. Confederate troops spiked the five remaining cannons and abandoned Fort Griffin by May 24, 1865.
His ship was the USS Clifton, a steam-powered side-wheeler. Today, descendants of this legendary breed are located at Fort Griffin. This was a flat, often muddy area already cleared of brush by the Confederate garrison as a clear field of fire for the canister and grape of the fort's artillery. Outside the principal Gulf shore sand bar, an additional two miles (3.2 km) downstream of this squadron, lay at anchor the remaining ships of the 22-vessel invasion fleet. Holding command over the Southern Plains, Fort Griffin served as one in a line of western defensive forts from 1867 to 1881.
The official reports of the battle generally reflect the map's information. Handbook of Texas Online, In The Flat’s stores, dance halls and “dens of iniquity,” a passer-by could encounter notorious characters such as Wyatt Earp, John H. “Doc” Holliday, “Bat” Masterson, John Larn, John Selman, “Big Nose” Kate Elder, or “The Poker Queen” Lottie Deno. College Students France was openly sympathetic to the Confederate States of America early in the Civil War, but never matched its sympathy with diplomatic or military action. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park. The town of Fort Griffin, also known as The Flat or Hide Town, was considered one of the West’s five wildest towns with streets thronging with soldiers, buffalo hunters, drovers, gamblers, saloon girls, surveyors, outlaws, clerks, merchants and ranchers. [8] The Union casualties amounted to two dozen killed and badly wounded, about 37 missing (including several "colored men" U.S. sailors), and 315 Navy men captured. The Handbook of Texas is free-to-use thanks to the support of readers like you. In recognition of the victory, the Confederate Congress passed a resolution of special thanks the officers and men of the Davis Guard. On Nov. 25, 1876, an expedition under Gen. Mackenzie, comprising B D, E, F and M troops 4th Cavalry, while scouting on the … 3: Iss. Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving Texas Treasures, Curatorial Facility for Artifact Research, Finding and Hiring a Preservation Consultant, Economic Impact of Historic Preservation in Texas. Day, James M. (1965) "Leon Smith: Confederate Mariner," East Texas Historical Journal: Vol. In May 1881, the U.S. Army determined that Fort Griffin was no longer necessary for defense and the post was abandoned.
However, a statue and a plaque at Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park mark what is thought to have been the site of the fort. Once done, the Army force would march east, presumably destroying the rail line as it went, and attack Beaumont. A In anticipation of another possible federal assault, Fort Griffin was strengthened with several captured Parrott rifles and temporarily reinforced. October 16 - John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Now West Virginia)October 18 - U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry and capture John Brown The Union plan was to send Union Navy warships from the Mississippi up the tributary Red River, which was navigable upstream as far as where the boundaries of the Confederate states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas came together. Dowling's well practiced Irish-Texan artillerymen, whose chosen and officially approved unit name was "Jefferson Davis Guards", had placed range-stakes in the two narrow and shallow (5-to-7 feet or 1.5-to-2.1 m) river channels.
1, Article 7. The medals were hung on green ribbons, and presented to the members of the Davis Guard.
[4] Under the immediate command of Lieutenant Richard W. Dowling, the Davis Guards had mounted their unit's six old smoothbore cannon on the elevated platform of the small earthen fort. From 1876 to 1885, thousands of Texas longhorns carved the Great Western Cattle Trail from San Antonio, through Fort Griffin, and on to Dodge City, Kansas. A small artillery was included. Official State of Texas Longhorn at Fort Griffin.
Crocker's squadron had no local river pilots, only general knowledge of the river's channels, no assurance of locations of the constantly varying depths especially of large oyster-shell "reefs" or "banks" between the river's two channels. The Confederates captured Clifton and Sachem with a total of 13 heavy cannon, including at least two new potent Parrott rifles, which were handed over to Leon Smith's Texas Marine Department. Besides Clifton, Crocker's advance squadron included Granite City, Sachem, and Arizona, all recently commissioned ironclad warships. The fort’s small force of 44 men, under command of Lt. Richard W. Dowling, disabled two ships, captured the gunboat Clifton with about 200 prisoners, and forced the Union flotilla to retire. reset. [12][13] The official Confederate silver metals were presented in a public ceremony a year later. This engagement was to be the largest amphibious assault on enemy territory in the history of the U.S. military up to that date. Troops from Fort Griffin, including units of the Buffalo Soldiers and Tonkawa scouts, participated in all the decisive campaigns that ended Kiowa and Comanche domination of northern Texas. Colonel W. H. Griffin, although this was not shown on Union maps since the First Battle of Sabine Pass in late September 1862. The Regiment took posts in the Indian Territory in 1875.
In September 1863 four Union gunboats, leading a strong amphibious invasion force, attacked Fort Griffin. Banks's original intent was to launch a combined Army-Navy campaign in northwest Louisiana. [3] The U.S.S. The key U.S. Navy target in the First Battle of Sabine Pass was the original earthworks thrown up on the Texas bank of the Sabine River about three miles (4.8 km) south of Sabine City, a tiny town with some wharfs on the east side of its main street.
In 1872, a military inspection was conducted at Fort Griffin and the post was declared “unfit for human habitation.” This was primarily due to the fact that many of the buildings on the frontier fort offered minimal protection from the elements because they were built with rawhide lumber, which had a tendency to warp and crack. In production since 1938, the Fandangle is staged in an acre-sized amphitheater with a cast and crew of more than 400 Albany locals. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/fort-griffin-QCF06. $3 Per Person, Family Fee In addition, Houston residents raised funds to provide medals to the Guard; the Davis Guards Medals were made from silver Mexican pesos by smoothing off the coins, then hand-stamping and hand-engraving on one side, the battle name and date and on the other side the initials "D G" and a cross pattée. Clifton approached in the lead, ascending the Texas channel at full speed. Yes, I would like to begin receiving history-rich content, news, and updates from TSHA. Confederate troops spiked the five remaining cannons and abandoned Fort Griffin by May 24, 1865.
His ship was the USS Clifton, a steam-powered side-wheeler. Today, descendants of this legendary breed are located at Fort Griffin. This was a flat, often muddy area already cleared of brush by the Confederate garrison as a clear field of fire for the canister and grape of the fort's artillery. Outside the principal Gulf shore sand bar, an additional two miles (3.2 km) downstream of this squadron, lay at anchor the remaining ships of the 22-vessel invasion fleet. Holding command over the Southern Plains, Fort Griffin served as one in a line of western defensive forts from 1867 to 1881.
The official reports of the battle generally reflect the map's information. Handbook of Texas Online, In The Flat’s stores, dance halls and “dens of iniquity,” a passer-by could encounter notorious characters such as Wyatt Earp, John H. “Doc” Holliday, “Bat” Masterson, John Larn, John Selman, “Big Nose” Kate Elder, or “The Poker Queen” Lottie Deno. College Students France was openly sympathetic to the Confederate States of America early in the Civil War, but never matched its sympathy with diplomatic or military action. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park. The town of Fort Griffin, also known as The Flat or Hide Town, was considered one of the West’s five wildest towns with streets thronging with soldiers, buffalo hunters, drovers, gamblers, saloon girls, surveyors, outlaws, clerks, merchants and ranchers. [8] The Union casualties amounted to two dozen killed and badly wounded, about 37 missing (including several "colored men" U.S. sailors), and 315 Navy men captured. The Handbook of Texas is free-to-use thanks to the support of readers like you. In recognition of the victory, the Confederate Congress passed a resolution of special thanks the officers and men of the Davis Guard. On Nov. 25, 1876, an expedition under Gen. Mackenzie, comprising B D, E, F and M troops 4th Cavalry, while scouting on the … 3: Iss. Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving Texas Treasures, Curatorial Facility for Artifact Research, Finding and Hiring a Preservation Consultant, Economic Impact of Historic Preservation in Texas. Day, James M. (1965) "Leon Smith: Confederate Mariner," East Texas Historical Journal: Vol. In May 1881, the U.S. Army determined that Fort Griffin was no longer necessary for defense and the post was abandoned.
However, a statue and a plaque at Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park mark what is thought to have been the site of the fort. Once done, the Army force would march east, presumably destroying the rail line as it went, and attack Beaumont. A In anticipation of another possible federal assault, Fort Griffin was strengthened with several captured Parrott rifles and temporarily reinforced. October 16 - John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Now West Virginia)October 18 - U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry and capture John Brown The Union plan was to send Union Navy warships from the Mississippi up the tributary Red River, which was navigable upstream as far as where the boundaries of the Confederate states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas came together. Dowling's well practiced Irish-Texan artillerymen, whose chosen and officially approved unit name was "Jefferson Davis Guards", had placed range-stakes in the two narrow and shallow (5-to-7 feet or 1.5-to-2.1 m) river channels.
1, Article 7. The medals were hung on green ribbons, and presented to the members of the Davis Guard.
[4] Under the immediate command of Lieutenant Richard W. Dowling, the Davis Guards had mounted their unit's six old smoothbore cannon on the elevated platform of the small earthen fort. From 1876 to 1885, thousands of Texas longhorns carved the Great Western Cattle Trail from San Antonio, through Fort Griffin, and on to Dodge City, Kansas. A small artillery was included. Official State of Texas Longhorn at Fort Griffin.
Crocker's squadron had no local river pilots, only general knowledge of the river's channels, no assurance of locations of the constantly varying depths especially of large oyster-shell "reefs" or "banks" between the river's two channels. The Confederates captured Clifton and Sachem with a total of 13 heavy cannon, including at least two new potent Parrott rifles, which were handed over to Leon Smith's Texas Marine Department. Besides Clifton, Crocker's advance squadron included Granite City, Sachem, and Arizona, all recently commissioned ironclad warships. The fort’s small force of 44 men, under command of Lt. Richard W. Dowling, disabled two ships, captured the gunboat Clifton with about 200 prisoners, and forced the Union flotilla to retire. reset. [12][13] The official Confederate silver metals were presented in a public ceremony a year later. This engagement was to be the largest amphibious assault on enemy territory in the history of the U.S. military up to that date. Troops from Fort Griffin, including units of the Buffalo Soldiers and Tonkawa scouts, participated in all the decisive campaigns that ended Kiowa and Comanche domination of northern Texas. Colonel W. H. Griffin, although this was not shown on Union maps since the First Battle of Sabine Pass in late September 1862. The Regiment took posts in the Indian Territory in 1875.
In September 1863 four Union gunboats, leading a strong amphibious invasion force, attacked Fort Griffin. Banks's original intent was to launch a combined Army-Navy campaign in northwest Louisiana. [3] The U.S.S. The key U.S. Navy target in the First Battle of Sabine Pass was the original earthworks thrown up on the Texas bank of the Sabine River about three miles (4.8 km) south of Sabine City, a tiny town with some wharfs on the east side of its main street.
In 1872, a military inspection was conducted at Fort Griffin and the post was declared “unfit for human habitation.” This was primarily due to the fact that many of the buildings on the frontier fort offered minimal protection from the elements because they were built with rawhide lumber, which had a tendency to warp and crack. In production since 1938, the Fandangle is staged in an acre-sized amphitheater with a cast and crew of more than 400 Albany locals. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/fort-griffin-QCF06. $3 Per Person, Family Fee In addition, Houston residents raised funds to provide medals to the Guard; the Davis Guards Medals were made from silver Mexican pesos by smoothing off the coins, then hand-stamping and hand-engraving on one side, the battle name and date and on the other side the initials "D G" and a cross pattée. Clifton approached in the lead, ascending the Texas channel at full speed. Yes, I would like to begin receiving history-rich content, news, and updates from TSHA. Confederate troops spiked the five remaining cannons and abandoned Fort Griffin by May 24, 1865.
His ship was the USS Clifton, a steam-powered side-wheeler. Today, descendants of this legendary breed are located at Fort Griffin. This was a flat, often muddy area already cleared of brush by the Confederate garrison as a clear field of fire for the canister and grape of the fort's artillery. Outside the principal Gulf shore sand bar, an additional two miles (3.2 km) downstream of this squadron, lay at anchor the remaining ships of the 22-vessel invasion fleet. Holding command over the Southern Plains, Fort Griffin served as one in a line of western defensive forts from 1867 to 1881.
The official reports of the battle generally reflect the map's information. Handbook of Texas Online, In The Flat’s stores, dance halls and “dens of iniquity,” a passer-by could encounter notorious characters such as Wyatt Earp, John H. “Doc” Holliday, “Bat” Masterson, John Larn, John Selman, “Big Nose” Kate Elder, or “The Poker Queen” Lottie Deno. College Students France was openly sympathetic to the Confederate States of America early in the Civil War, but never matched its sympathy with diplomatic or military action. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park. The town of Fort Griffin, also known as The Flat or Hide Town, was considered one of the West’s five wildest towns with streets thronging with soldiers, buffalo hunters, drovers, gamblers, saloon girls, surveyors, outlaws, clerks, merchants and ranchers. [8] The Union casualties amounted to two dozen killed and badly wounded, about 37 missing (including several "colored men" U.S. sailors), and 315 Navy men captured. The Handbook of Texas is free-to-use thanks to the support of readers like you. In recognition of the victory, the Confederate Congress passed a resolution of special thanks the officers and men of the Davis Guard. On Nov. 25, 1876, an expedition under Gen. Mackenzie, comprising B D, E, F and M troops 4th Cavalry, while scouting on the … 3: Iss. Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving Texas Treasures, Curatorial Facility for Artifact Research, Finding and Hiring a Preservation Consultant, Economic Impact of Historic Preservation in Texas. Day, James M. (1965) "Leon Smith: Confederate Mariner," East Texas Historical Journal: Vol. In May 1881, the U.S. Army determined that Fort Griffin was no longer necessary for defense and the post was abandoned.
accessed October 14, 2020, Fort Sabine had been renamed "Fort Griffin" in honor of an earlier commander, Confederate Lt. W. T. Block, A History of Jefferson County, Texas, from Wilderness to Reconstruction (M.A. Although the original intention was for all buildings on the grounds to be permanent stone structures, they retained a temporary appearance throughout their existence. Regarding this battle no mention is found in official U.S. Navy reports of whether Union sailors were making observations and taking depth soundings from the gunboats' now dangerous top decks, while the Confederate cannon shots pounded and shook their ships. The installation housed six gun emplacements and bombproofs built into a sawtooth front, and timber and railroad iron reinforced the earthwork position. Robert Wooster, reset. After Mexican forces were defeated by French forces in summer 1863, Mexican president Benito Juárez escaped the capital, and the French installed Austrian Maximilian as "Emperor". Fort Griffin State Historic Site is located in the Texas Forts Trail Region. Although unimpressive to Union observers and scouts, the fort's gun positions were high enough to afford a clear view to the horizon for many miles: the flat marshlands stretched northeastward into Louisiana, westward toward Houston, southwestward toward Galveston, northward toward Port Arthur and Beaumont, and southeastward into the Gulf of Mexico. 218. out of the mud by dismounted men. With a de facto French government bordering Texas on the south across the Rio Grande, the Confederates hoped to establish a formal route between Texas and Mexico by way of which the Confederacy could obtain much-needed supplies. Unusually low water in the Red River at this time, however, prevented even relatively low-draft Union gunboats from operating effectively, and the anticipated overland Union invasion of Texas was further delayed.
However, a statue and a plaque at Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park mark what is thought to have been the site of the fort. Once done, the Army force would march east, presumably destroying the rail line as it went, and attack Beaumont. A In anticipation of another possible federal assault, Fort Griffin was strengthened with several captured Parrott rifles and temporarily reinforced. October 16 - John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Now West Virginia)October 18 - U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry and capture John Brown The Union plan was to send Union Navy warships from the Mississippi up the tributary Red River, which was navigable upstream as far as where the boundaries of the Confederate states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas came together. Dowling's well practiced Irish-Texan artillerymen, whose chosen and officially approved unit name was "Jefferson Davis Guards", had placed range-stakes in the two narrow and shallow (5-to-7 feet or 1.5-to-2.1 m) river channels.
1, Article 7. The medals were hung on green ribbons, and presented to the members of the Davis Guard.
[4] Under the immediate command of Lieutenant Richard W. Dowling, the Davis Guards had mounted their unit's six old smoothbore cannon on the elevated platform of the small earthen fort. From 1876 to 1885, thousands of Texas longhorns carved the Great Western Cattle Trail from San Antonio, through Fort Griffin, and on to Dodge City, Kansas. A small artillery was included. Official State of Texas Longhorn at Fort Griffin.
Crocker's squadron had no local river pilots, only general knowledge of the river's channels, no assurance of locations of the constantly varying depths especially of large oyster-shell "reefs" or "banks" between the river's two channels. The Confederates captured Clifton and Sachem with a total of 13 heavy cannon, including at least two new potent Parrott rifles, which were handed over to Leon Smith's Texas Marine Department. Besides Clifton, Crocker's advance squadron included Granite City, Sachem, and Arizona, all recently commissioned ironclad warships. The fort’s small force of 44 men, under command of Lt. Richard W. Dowling, disabled two ships, captured the gunboat Clifton with about 200 prisoners, and forced the Union flotilla to retire. reset. [12][13] The official Confederate silver metals were presented in a public ceremony a year later. This engagement was to be the largest amphibious assault on enemy territory in the history of the U.S. military up to that date. Troops from Fort Griffin, including units of the Buffalo Soldiers and Tonkawa scouts, participated in all the decisive campaigns that ended Kiowa and Comanche domination of northern Texas. Colonel W. H. Griffin, although this was not shown on Union maps since the First Battle of Sabine Pass in late September 1862. The Regiment took posts in the Indian Territory in 1875.
In September 1863 four Union gunboats, leading a strong amphibious invasion force, attacked Fort Griffin. Banks's original intent was to launch a combined Army-Navy campaign in northwest Louisiana. [3] The U.S.S. The key U.S. Navy target in the First Battle of Sabine Pass was the original earthworks thrown up on the Texas bank of the Sabine River about three miles (4.8 km) south of Sabine City, a tiny town with some wharfs on the east side of its main street.
In 1872, a military inspection was conducted at Fort Griffin and the post was declared “unfit for human habitation.” This was primarily due to the fact that many of the buildings on the frontier fort offered minimal protection from the elements because they were built with rawhide lumber, which had a tendency to warp and crack. In production since 1938, the Fandangle is staged in an acre-sized amphitheater with a cast and crew of more than 400 Albany locals. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/fort-griffin-QCF06. $3 Per Person, Family Fee In addition, Houston residents raised funds to provide medals to the Guard; the Davis Guards Medals were made from silver Mexican pesos by smoothing off the coins, then hand-stamping and hand-engraving on one side, the battle name and date and on the other side the initials "D G" and a cross pattée. Clifton approached in the lead, ascending the Texas channel at full speed. Yes, I would like to begin receiving history-rich content, news, and updates from TSHA. Confederate troops spiked the five remaining cannons and abandoned Fort Griffin by May 24, 1865.
His ship was the USS Clifton, a steam-powered side-wheeler. Today, descendants of this legendary breed are located at Fort Griffin. This was a flat, often muddy area already cleared of brush by the Confederate garrison as a clear field of fire for the canister and grape of the fort's artillery. Outside the principal Gulf shore sand bar, an additional two miles (3.2 km) downstream of this squadron, lay at anchor the remaining ships of the 22-vessel invasion fleet. Holding command over the Southern Plains, Fort Griffin served as one in a line of western defensive forts from 1867 to 1881.
The official reports of the battle generally reflect the map's information. Handbook of Texas Online, In The Flat’s stores, dance halls and “dens of iniquity,” a passer-by could encounter notorious characters such as Wyatt Earp, John H. “Doc” Holliday, “Bat” Masterson, John Larn, John Selman, “Big Nose” Kate Elder, or “The Poker Queen” Lottie Deno. College Students France was openly sympathetic to the Confederate States of America early in the Civil War, but never matched its sympathy with diplomatic or military action. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park. The town of Fort Griffin, also known as The Flat or Hide Town, was considered one of the West’s five wildest towns with streets thronging with soldiers, buffalo hunters, drovers, gamblers, saloon girls, surveyors, outlaws, clerks, merchants and ranchers. [8] The Union casualties amounted to two dozen killed and badly wounded, about 37 missing (including several "colored men" U.S. sailors), and 315 Navy men captured. The Handbook of Texas is free-to-use thanks to the support of readers like you. In recognition of the victory, the Confederate Congress passed a resolution of special thanks the officers and men of the Davis Guard. On Nov. 25, 1876, an expedition under Gen. Mackenzie, comprising B D, E, F and M troops 4th Cavalry, while scouting on the … 3: Iss. Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving Texas Treasures, Curatorial Facility for Artifact Research, Finding and Hiring a Preservation Consultant, Economic Impact of Historic Preservation in Texas. Day, James M. (1965) "Leon Smith: Confederate Mariner," East Texas Historical Journal: Vol. In May 1881, the U.S. Army determined that Fort Griffin was no longer necessary for defense and the post was abandoned.
