Union troops take Brownsville and the cotton road to Matamoros
November 6, 1863, Brownsville, Texas.
- Date
- November 6, 1863
- Where
- Brownsville, Texas
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 90 of 174
Confederate cotton moved through Brownsville across the border to Matamoros and on to neutral ports. Banks landed an expedition of 6,000 men at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and on November 6 Hamilton Bee abandoned Fort Brown, burning what military supplies and cotton he could. Union troops captured a large supply of cotton left behind.