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Austin (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Corpus Christi-Mexican smuggling-spanish rule in Mexico-supplying transportation
Early in September the regiment left New Orleans for Corpus Christi, now in Texas.
Ocean steamers were not then common, and the passage was made in sailing vessels.
At that time there was not more than three feet of water in the channel at the outlet of Corpus Christi Bay; the debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships anchoring some miles out from shore.
This made the work slow, and as the army was only supplied with one or two steamers, it took a number of days to effect the landing of a single regiment with its stores, camp and garrison equipage, etc. There happened to be pleasant weather while this was going on, but the land-swell was so great that when the ship and steamer were on opposite sides of the same wave they would be at considerable distance apart.
The men and baggage were let down to a point higher th
Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Goliad (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Guadalupe (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
San Antonio (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Fort Jessup (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Matamoras (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
San Patricio (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4