Monday, March 17, 2014

March 18, 1864---The Battle of Laredo, Texas



MARCH 18, 1864:     

The Battle of Laredo, Texas. Union forces attempt to burn 5,000 bales of cotton destined to cross from Texas into Mexico. Colonel Santos Benavides, the highest-ranking Tejano officer in the Confederacy repulses 200 Union men with only 42 garrison troops. 


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