Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A
"The Big Guns of Fayette"
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Marker Text: Organized in Fayette County, 1861, by Edmund Creuzbaur. a former Prussian artillery officer, and composed of around 150 men, 4 cannons, 72 horses, 39 mule. It served as both light and heavy field artillery at Fort Brown, Sabine Pass and other points in Texas and Louisiana. The unit at Calcasieu Pass, LA , May 1864 attacked and captured two union gunboats. In the 75-minute fight. One ship was hit 65 times: WM, Kneip was killed: of the wounded three later died, Capt. Creuzbaur soon after resigned and his brother-in-law, Capt. Charles Welhausen, assumed the command. (1965)
Marker No: 1107
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 29.721851,-96.923851
Location: From Schulenburg, take FM 2676 north about 2.3 mile
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