The Jan. 13th Houston Chronicle reported about a walking tour attended by 150 people that was given by the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance.
About a year after the war started, citizens threw material from a former Confederate arsenal into the Buffalo Bayou. Near Milam, the Confederate boat Augusta sprung a leak and sank.
After the war, this area was a popular souvenir-hunting place for people who waded out to the old wreck at low tide and found coins, buttons, and musket balls.
Buffalo Bayou is where the City of Houston was founded. The final fight in the Texas War for Independence, the Battle of San Jacinto, also took place where the Bayou joins the San Jacinto River.
Unfortunately, the bayou is too shallow to handle large ocean-going ships.
Wonder If Anything Is Still There. Oh Yes, Snakes. --B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
