Old Fort Davis CSA

Old Fort Davis served as a Confederate supply point and frontier outpost on the great military road from San Antonio to El Paso in 1861-62. After its surrender by the U. S. Army, it was occupied by a detachment of the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles. In August 1861, Apaches ambushed a patrol from the fort under Lt. Mays in the Big Bend area. Texas Confederate troops used the fort while traveling to and from the New Mexico-Arizona campaign, undertaken to stop the flow of gold to the North and gain access to the Pacific. Two cannons buried nearby on the return have never been found. California Union Cavalry occupied the fort briefly in August 1862.

Fort Davis, Texas · United States