Val Verde Battery

Six brass field guns taken by Lt. Joseph D. Sayers' Company in the Civil War Battle of Val Verde, N. Mex., in 1862 and brought back to Texas with incredible difficulty armed a new unit of hand-picked men. The sound of the Val Verde guns in action set the pace for other outfits and helped secure victories such as the recapture of Galveston in 1863. At Mansfield, La., in April 1864, the unit captured new, longer-range guns. Unwilling to lose their guns when the war ended, the men buried four. The last commander, T.D. Nettles, brought this one home to Freestone County.

Fairfield, Texas · United States