Sabine Pass port and Fort Griffin
Port, Sabine Pass, Texas.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Sabine Pass, Texas
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
SABINE PASS AND FORT GRIFFIN
Port that shipped cattle and cotton, with a connection on the Eastern Texas Railroad. Forts Sabine and Griffin were built to hold the pass. On September 8, 1863, Fort Griffin turned back a Union invasion of Texas, and the Union Navy lost three gunboats, two of them captured.
Then
Sabine Pass shipped cattle and cotton and had a connection on the Eastern Texas Railroad. Forts Sabine and Griffin were built to hold the pass against Union attack.
Union troops landed in 1862 and destroyed the sawmill. On September 8, 1863, Fort Griffin turned back a Union invasion of Texas; the Union Navy lost three gunboats, two of them captured.
Now
Built over
Sabine Pass is part of Jefferson County, Texas, on the outlet of Sabine Lake.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Union Pacific, about 10 miles away.