Bagdad
Port, Bagdad, Mexico.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Bagdad, Mexico
- Years
- 1861-1865
PORT OF BAGDAD
Bagdad was the seaport of Matamoros and one of the leading commercial ports of the world during the war. Merchant ships anchored offshore, landing legal goods by day and contraband by night, and the contraband went straight to Texas without passing Mexican customs. Most residents left in 1865, and an 1889 hurricane destroyed what remained.
Then
Bagdad was the seaport of Matamoros, and the Port of Matamoros, also called the Port of Bagdad, was one of the leading commercial ports of the world during the war. Merchant ships anchored offshore and landed legal goods by day and contraband by night, and the contraband went straight to Texas without passing Mexican customs.
Most residents left when the war ended in 1865, and an 1889 hurricane destroyed what remained of the port.
Now
Nothing of the Civil War town remains. A small lighthouse stands on Bagdad Beach about 0.3 km east of the former settlement.
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