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After Southern surrender, Confederates score a last victory in Texas
On this day in 1865, more than a month after the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the last land action of the Civil War took place at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville. The battle lasted four hours. Confederate casualties were a few dozen wounded. The federals lost 111 men and four officers captured, and thirty men wounded or killed. Ironically, at the same time, the Confederate governors of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas were authorizing Confederate commander Kirby Smith to disband his armies and end the war.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- PALMITO RANCH, BATTLE OF
- CIVIL WAR
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD
- BROWNSVILLE, TX
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- Author George Washington Daniels dies (1921)
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