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33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Hamilton P. Bee: 1 KIA, 1 WIA, 1 DIA Loss [67] 1863 Skirmish at La Sal Vieja 2nd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: 0 Loss [68] 1864 Battle of Laredo: 33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Santos Benavides: 0 Victory [69] 1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch: 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Texas Army: John Salmon Ford: 6 WIA, 3 POW ...
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Two U.S. National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent were killed and a fourth person was injured when a helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, on Friday, officials said.
Multiple Union soldiers who were held as POWs at Camp Ford documented their confinement through diaries kept during their time there. One such diary was created by James S. McClain, who had been captured on May 3, 1864, and was held until the final exchange of prisoners on May 27, 1865.
Below are 215 known combatants: 193 who died during the siege, 31 survivors, and one escapee who later died of his wounds. Mexican Colonel Juan Almonte, Santa Anna's aide-de-camp, recorded the Texian fatality toll as 250 in his March 6 journal entry. He listed the survivors as five women, one Mexican soldier and one slave.
A Texas soldier who disappeared for 11 days this year — and was found one day after the announcement of his wife’s death — is not a person of interest in the case, military officials said.
William Edwin Dyess (August 9, 1916 – December 22, 1943) was an officer of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. [1] He was captured after the Allied loss at the Battle of Bataan and endured the subsequent Bataan Death March.
Henry Karnes (1812–1840), soldier and commander in Texas Revolution; Robert J. Kleberg (1803–1888), veteran of Battle of San Jacinto; descendants owned and managed King Ranch; Antonio Menchaca (1800–1879), soldier in the Texas Army; he helped convince Houston to allow Tejanos to fight in the battle of San Jacinto