Union invasion of Texas turned back at Sabine Pass
September 8, 1863, Sabine Pass, Texas.
- Date
- September 8, 1863
- Where
- Sabine Pass, Texas
- What happened
- Other
- Event
- 82 of 174
The Jeff Davis Guards at Fort Griffin beat off a Union expedition that lost three gunboats, two of them captured. The planned overland invasion of Texas was put off indefinitely. After Vicksburg, the supply line from Mexico through Texas could no longer reach the Confederacy east of the Mississippi.