Matamoros
Port, Matamoros, Mexico.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Matamoros, Mexico
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
MATAMOROS
Across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Matamoros fed, clothed and armed the Confederacy west of the Mississippi. Cotton bought at about three cents a pound sold here for fifty cents in gold for shipment to England and France. The town grew to about 30,000 people by 1865, and its markets shut when the Confederacy collapsed.
Then
Across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Matamoros became the commercial center that fed, clothed and armed the Confederacy west of the Mississippi, in the words of a Union general in 1865. Cotton that cost about three cents a pound in the Confederacy sold there for fifty cents a pound in gold for shipment to England and France.
The town grew to about 30,000 people by 1865. After the Confederacy collapsed its markets shut down and it returned to being a small border town.
Now
Built over
Matamoros is a city in Tamaulipas on the Rio Grande opposite Brownsville, Texas.
Nearby
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