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Galveston Historical Foundation

Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns – Foundation Conversations

1859 Ashton Villa 2328 Broadway Avenue J, Galveston, United States

The Galveston Campaigns were a series of naval and overland battles that pitted Confederate General John B. Magruder and his often-improvised Confederate forces against General Nathaniel P. Banks and a variety of Union army and naval forces. A Federal fleet entered Galveston Bay on October 4, 1862, and the city surrendered after the expiration of […]

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