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Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. - The Big Guns of Fayette

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Schulenburg, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 29° 43' 18.72165", -96° 55' 25.87442999988"
 
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     Organized in Fayette County, 1861, by Edmund Creuzbaur, a former Prussian artillery officer, and composed of around 150 men, 4 cannon, 72 horses, 39 mules. It served as both light and heavy field artillery at Fort Brown, Sabine Pass and other points in Texas and Louisiana. The unit at Calcasieu Pass, La., May 1864, attacked and captured two Union gunboats. In the 75-minute fight, one ship was hit 65 times; Wm. Kneip was killed; of the wounded, three later died. Capt. Creuzbaur soon after resigned and his brother-in-law, Capt. Charles Welhausen, assumed the command.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. - The Big Guns of Fayette Historical Marker Location Map, Texas

 
   
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