THE FIRST BATTLE OF SABINE PASS
It was a naval battle. Union forces under Acting Master Frederick Crocker, with two schooners and a steamship, attempted to enter Sabine Pass in order to get to Beaumont.
At Fort Sabine, they encountered 30 infantry and artillerists and 30 cavalry. The Confederate guns were unable to reach the Union ships and were abandoned. The city of Sabine Pass surrendered the next day.
SHIPS AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF SABINE PASS
The USS CLIFTON, commissioned 1862, built in 1861 as a ferry. Towed mortar boats up the Mississippi for the attack on New Orleans, also at Vicksburg. On October 1862, it took part in the capture of Galveston and helped seize Fort Burton, Louisiana in April, 1863. It was captured at Sabine Pass September 8, 1863 and entered Confederate service with the Texas Marine Department and converted into a gunboat. It ran aground off Sabine Pass March 21, 1864 while attempting to run the blockade and couldn't be refloated and was burned.
It Gets Deeper. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
