The Battle of Brownsville took place on November 2–6, 1863 during the American Civil War. It was a successful effort on behalf of the Union Army to disrupt...
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Brownsville (/ˈbraʊnzvɪl/ BROWNZ-vil) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas...
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The Battle of Brownsville was fought on August 25, 1863, near what is now Lonoke, Arkansas, between Union forces led by Colonel Washington Geiger and...
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banks of the Rio Grande east of Brownsville, Texas, and a few miles from the seaport of Los Brazos de Santiago, at the southern tip of Texas. The battle took...
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13th Maine Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Maine)
the Union for the remainder of the war in South Texas. Following the Battle of Brownsville, the 13th Maine and the rest of XIII Corps consolidated a garrison...
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Brownsville is a city in and the county seat of Haywood County, Tennessee, United States. Its population as of the 2020 census was 9,788. The city is named...
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91st Illinois Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois)
the other end of the Texas coast, Banks and his XIII Corps would shut the port at the Corpus Christi/Brownsville area at the mouth of the Rio Grande...
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1st Texas Cavalry Regiment (Union) (category Units and formations of the Union army from Texas)
of battles in which the regiment bore a part: Second Bayou Teche Campaign Army of the Gulf South Texas Expedition Battle of Brownsville Battle of Laredo...
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General John S. Marmaduke on August 25, in the Battle of Brownsville. After the action at Brownsville, the Confederates fell back to the Bayou Meto. Union...
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William McEntyre Dye (category Chiefs of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia)
commanded various brigades in the Department of the Gulf. He was in command of a brigade during the Battle of Brownsville. In May 1864 he was brevetted colonel...
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Scott, Arkansas (section Points of interest)
retreat after the Battle of Brownsville, and Marmaduke questioned Walker's courage after the Battle of Bayou Meto on August 27. A series of notes passed between...
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Richard King (entrepreneur) (category American people of Irish descent)
King participated in shifting the Cotton Road to Laredo. After the Battle of Brownsville, King Ranch was attacked by Union troops Christmastime 1863 by 80...
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established by Zachary Taylor. May 8: Battle of Palo Alto. 1848 - Brownsville founded by Charles Stillman. 1849 Travellers of the California Gold Rush pass through...
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Texas v. White (category Aftermath of the American Civil War)
Court in 1869. The case involved a claim by the Reconstruction government of Texas that United States bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally...
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retreat after the Battle of Brownsville, and Marmaduke questioned Walker's courage after the Battle of Bayou Meto on August 27. A series of notes passed between...
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Texas in the American Civil War (redirect from A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union)
to secure the ports near Brownsville and pushed 100 miles in-land, in order to impede the flow of cotton and deny freedom of movement. A few other cities...
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Lonoke County, Arkansas. Located north of Lonoke near the hamlet of Brownsville, the road section was part of the 1828 Memphis to Little Rock Military...
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Cadwallader C. Washburn (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin)
Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, p. 294, 296 Battle Summary: Memphis, TN Paynter 2002, p. 11. Paynter 2002, p. 4. "On This Day...
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The Brownsville affair, or the Brownsville raid, was an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in the Southwestern United States due...
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26th Indiana Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Indiana)
Carrollton, Louisiana, with security of prisoners. October 1863. Expedition to the Rio Grande area, Texas. Battle of Brownsville, Texas. November 2–6, 1863. Pioneer...
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Lower Rio Grande Valley (redirect from McAllen-Harlingen-Brownsville area)
source of several major battles, including the Battle of Resaca de la Palma near Brownsville. The war ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe...
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19th Iowa Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa)
at the Battle of Brownsville in Duye's 2nd Brigade in the 2nd Division of Dana's XIII Corps. The regiment closed out the war with the Battle of Spanish...
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3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Missouri)
suffering light casualties at the Battles of Brownsville, Bayou Meto, and Bayou Fourche. During the 25 October Battle of Pine Bluff, it dismounted and attacked...
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James H. Robinson (soldier) (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
January 27, 1864 at Brownsville, Arkansas, he performed an act of bravery, single-handedly defending himself against a party of seven enemy guerrillas...
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The Battle of Resaca de la Palma was one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor...
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15th Maine Infantry Regiment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
Advance on Brownsville November 3–6. Occupation of Brownsville November 6. Expedition to Aransas November 14–21. Aransas Pass and capture of Mustang Island...
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1968 New York City teachers' strike (redirect from Oceanhill-Brownsville)
strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods...
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Corps d'Afrique (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
Department of the Gulf, was issued by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks and stated the intent of forming a corps-sized unit composed of colored soldiers:...
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The Battle of La Ebonal was fought in December 1859 near Brownsville, Texas during the First Cortina War. Following the Brownsville Raid, on September...
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8th Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Union) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
in Frederick Steele's expedition to Little Rock in 1863, fighting at Brownsville, Bayou Meto, and Bayou Fourche. From 1863 to 1865, the regiment remained...
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