Battle of Laredo

Battle of Laredo
	Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the; American Civil War
Date	18 March 1864
Location	Laredo, Texas
Result	Confederate victory
Belligerents
CSA (Confederacy)	United States (Union)
Commanders and leaders
Santos Benavides	Alfred F. Holt
Units involved
	1st Texas Cavalry Regiment
Strength
42	200
Casualties and losses
0	2 killed

The Battle of Laredo was fought during the American Civil War. Laredo, Texas was a main route to export cotton to Mexico on behalf of the Confederate States amid the Union blockade of ports along the Gulf of Mexico. On March 18, 1864, Major Alfred F. Holt led a Union force from Brownsville, Texas, to destroy 5,000 bales of cotton stacked at the San Agustín Plaza. Colonel Santos Benavides commanded 42 Confederate soldiers and repelled three Union attacks at Zacate Creek. Colonel Santos Benavides secured passage of the 5,000 cotton bales into Mexico.^[2]^[3]

External links

^ Roll of Honor reports of the 1st Texas Cavalry list Corporal Wilson Fensell and Private Peter Purcell of Company F died March 23, and March 24, 1864; both were buried in Brownsville Texas. see .pp.20-21
^ Handbook of Texas Online; Colonel Santos Benavides (accessed November 25, 2008)
^ Webb County Heritage Foundation; War on the Rio Grande Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine

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Origins	History of slavery in Texas
1861	Ordinance of Secession
1862	Marshall Conferences Nueces Massacre Battle of Corpus Christi First Battle of Sabine Pass Battle of Galveston Harbor (1862) Great Hanging at Gainesville
1863	Battle of Galveston Second Battle of Sabine Pass Battle of Brownsville Battle of Mustang Island Battle of Fort Esperanza
1864	Battle of Laredo
1865	Battle of Dove Creek Battle of Palmito Ranch
Units	Confederate Union
Aftermath	Juneteenth Texas v. White Andrew Hamilton
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