Well, i finally found something!!! got on mapquest last night and went right to it! who would've thought :) It was interesting but bitter cold, flat,flat marsh out there. Lots of oil refineries and a huge shipping lane up the Sabine River, Big, big river. that was why it was so strategic during the Civil War, the confederacy was shipping cotton out and guns/supplies in. On 9-8-1863 Lt Dowling and his men, numbering only 42 men, in an unfinished fort, took on the Union army of 15,000, captured 350 prisoners and 3 gunboats, winning the day! Securing the river for the Confederacy. The men were mostly Irishmen from Galveston and had been together in company form since 1861.
It was an earthworks bunker
Well, i finally found something!!! got on mapquest last night and went right to it! who would've thought :) It was interesting but bitter cold, flat,flat marsh out there. Lots of oil refineries and a huge shipping lane up the Sabine River, Big, big river. that was why it was so strategic during the Civil War, the confederacy was shipping cotton out and guns/supplies in. On 9-8-1863 Lt Dowling and his men, numbering only 42 men, in an unfinished fort, took on the Union army of 15,000, captured 350 prisoners and 3 gunboats, winning the day! Securing the river for the Confederacy. The men were mostly Irishmen from Galveston and had been together in company form since 1861.
It was an earthworks bunker
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