Brownsville and the Cotton Road
Port, Brownsville, Texas.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Brownsville, Texas
- Years
- 1861-1865
BROWNSVILLE AND THE COTTON ROAD
At the end of the Cotton Road, Confederate cotton crossed into Mexico here for European ships at the Mexican port of Bagdad, outside the Union blockade. Confederates abandoned the town in November 1863, and John Salmon Ford's forces reoccupied it in 1864.
Then
Brownsville sat at the end of the Cotton Road. Confederate cotton crossed into Mexico here and went to European ships at the Mexican port of Bagdad, outside the Union blockade.
Confederates blew up Fort Brown and abandoned the town in November 1863. John Salmon Ford's forces reoccupied the town in 1864.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through Brownsville today.