• 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 (/ˈbraʊnzˌvɪl/) 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, adjacent...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    1st Texas Cavalry Regiment (Union) (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Texas)
    Haynes List of Texas Civil War Union units Nueces massacre, one of the events leading to enlistment in the Regiment Official Army Register of the Volunteer...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • businesses. During the American Civil War, a battle and multiple smaller skirmishes were fought at Brownsville, and soldiers from both sides plundered resources...
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    wrote two Westerns for Corman: Three Bright Banners, based on the Battle of Brownsville, and Hangtown. Neither was made, but Corman hired Griffith to do...
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  • The Demon of Brownsville Road is a book by Bob Cranmer and Erica Manfred, published in August 2014. The story is also the basis of a series of television...
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    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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    Battery B, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union Army from Missouri)
    to Brownsville on 4–9 November. It served in the Battle of Brownsville on 6 November. The battery made no official report in the fourth quarter of 1863...
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  • "SABINE PASS, BATTLE OF". TSHA. "DAVIS GUARDS". TSHA. Garza, Alicia A. "BROWNSVILLE, TX". TSHA. ROZEFF, Norman. "A Treasure in Salt". Valley Star. Cuéllar...
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  • 1864, Major Alfred F. Holt led a Union force from Brownsville, Texas, to destroy 5,000 bales of cotton stacked at the San Agustín Plaza. Colonel Santos...
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