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This cannon, displayed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum, may have participated in the battle. The cannon's fate is disputed. According to the memoirs (written in the 1890s) of Gonzales blacksmith Noah Smithwick, the cannon was abandoned after the cart's axles began to smoke during a march to San Antonio de Béxar to assist in Austin's siege.
Women's Civil War Museum: Opened in 1999, it is the only museum that looks into the role of women during the American Civil War. It is in the historic (c1840) Wright Talbott House. Hal Moore Military Museum: Honors those who came from the middle of the United States who fought for freedom from the first Revolutionary War to Operation Desert Storm.
The Johnson-Grant venture, the first battle of the Texas Revolution in which the Mexican Army was the victor. From the Johnson forces, 20 Texans killed, 32 captured and 1 Mexican loss, 4 wounded. Johnson and 4 others escaped after capture and proceeded to Goliad. Johnson would survive the Texas Revolution. M Battle of Agua Dulce: Agua Dulce ...
A Civil War museum in Texas that has faced criticism for skirting around slavery will be closing its doors at the end of October, according to an announcement the museum made online.
Twin Sisters exhibit, Great Hall, Texas Military Forces Museum. 7 April 1895, Andrew Jackson Houston gifted Santa Anna's dagger, a war trophy from the Battle of San Jacinto, to Cincinnatians [18] 2 March 1897, University of Texas students "borrowed" a Twin from the capitol and fired it for Texas Independence Day, establishing a Texas Exes ...
The Texas Civil War Museum in White Settlement, which has been open since 2006 and displays Union and Confederate artifacts, is taking back its decision to close its doors at the end of 2023.. The ...
Ray Richey of the Texas Civil War Museum stands with a coat worn by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The coat and some swords are being added to the collection.
John Henry Moore (August 13, 1800 – December 2, 1880) was an American soldier, farmer and early Texian settler. Moore was one of the Old Three Hundred first land grantees to settle in Mexican Texas and fought in Texas Revolution, most notably leading the rebels during the Battle of Gonzales, the first military engagement of the rebellion.