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Val Verde (later the site of the Civil War Battle of Valverde) [1] [2] was established as the county seat. [3] Worth County was never actually organized as the territory (in large part due to local opposition of the area being considered a part of Texas [4]) and was ceded a few months later to the US Federal government on November 25, 1850, as ...
Fort Duncan (near Eagle Pass) Fort Elliott (near Mobeetie) Fort Ewell (near La Salle County) Fort Gates (near Gatesville) Fort Graham (under Lake Whitney; partial historical reconstruction near Whitney) Fort Griffin (near Albany) Fort Hancock (near Fort Hancock) Camp Hudson, Fort Hudson (near Bakers Crossing, Texas) Fort Inge (near Uvalde)
The CSA garrisoned the fort with volunteers and Texas Rangers, renaming it Rio Grande Station, which became an important port for the export of cotton into Mexico. [3]: 46 Federal troops reoccupied Fort Duncan on 23 March 1868 by the 41st Infantry under the command of Lt. Col. William R. Shafter, and Lt. Henry Ware Lawton as quartermaster.
The Texas Civil War Museum is closing and its $20M in antiques are for sale. (It tried to show “both sides.” But there aren’t two sides of slavery.)
Farm to Market Road 1630 (FM 1630) is a two-lane highway connecting the farming community of Hardy, near Forestburg in Montague County to FM 51 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Gainesville in Cooke County. FM 1630 terminates at FM 677 at its western end and at FM 51 at its eastern end.
After the war the air station went into caretaker status in December 1946, became an outlying landing field of Naval Air Station Dallas, and was later used by the Texas Army National Guard and other branches of the U.S. military before being sold to a private owner in the 1970s.
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Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County, Texas, United States. Its population was 28,130 as of the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila , Mexico , which is to the southwest and across the Rio Grande river.