From the American Battlefield Trust 2021 Calendar, May
PALMITO RANCH, Texas
3 acres saved.
Palmito Ranch battlefield National Historic Landmark, Brownsville, Texas.
On the banks of the Rio Grande River, near Brownsville, Texas, Palmito Ranch looks much as it did at the time of the battle 156 years ago.
On May 11, 1865, 300 men of the 62nd Regiment United States Colored Troops and the 2nd Texas Cavalry set out on an expedition to attack reported rebel outposts and camps, leading to what many historians consider the final land battle of the Civil War, which began the next day.
The trust's three-acre acquisition there in 2001 remains our lone victory in the Lone Star State.
--Old Secesh
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