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26th Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Xavier Debray: 0 Loss 1863 Second Battle of Galveston: Texas Army: John B. Magruder: 26 KIA, 117 WIA Victory 1863 Second Battle of Sabine Pass: Davis Guards, 1st Artillery Regiment, Texas Army: Richard W. Dowling: 0: Victory 1863 Battle of Brownsville: 33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Hamilton P. Bee
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Texas occupation. Under the Anaconda Plan, the Union Navy blockaded the principal seaport, Galveston and the entire Gulf and Southern borders, for four years, and federal troops occupied the city for three months in late 1862. Confederate troops under Gen. John B. Magruder recaptured the city on January 1, 1863, and it remained in Confederate ...
the 2nd Texas Cavalry Battalion had one killed, seven wounded, and 22 captured, totaling four killed, 12 wounded, and 101 captured. Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana was the last fatality during the Battle at Palmito Ranch, likely making him the final combat death of the entire war. Aftermath
Casualties and losses. 2 dead, 18 wounded [3] 37 dead, unknown wounded and fled [4] The Nueces Massacre, also known as the Massacre on the Nueces, was a violent confrontation between Confederate soldiers and Texas Germans [5] on August 10, 1862, in Kinney County, Texas U.S. Many first-generation immigrants from Germany settled in Central Texas ...
t. e. The San Elizario Salt War, also known as the Salinero Revolt or the El Paso Salt War, was an extended and complex range war of the mid-19th century that revolved around the ownership and control of immense salt lakes at the base of the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas. What began in 1866 as a political and legal struggle among Anglo ...
Texas Comanche wars 1836 – 1875. The Comanche Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought between Comanche peoples and Spanish, Mexican, and American militaries and civilians in the United States and Mexico from as early as 1706 until at least the mid-1870s. The Comanche were the Native American inhabitants of a large area known as ...
American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate States of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.