Battle of Galveston
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The Battle of Galveston was a naval and land battle of the American Civil War, when Confederate forces under Major Gen. John B. Magruder expelled occupying Union troops from the city of Galveston, Tex
CS Bayou City captures USS Harriet Lane during the Battle of Galveston
Artist's depiction of the capture of USS Harriet Lane.
Replicas of the "Twin Sisters", which were used in the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto and the 1863 Battle of Galveston.
Leon Smith (naval commander)
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Leonidas R. Smith was an American steamboat captain and soldier. In the American Civil War he served the Confederate States of America as a volunteer; he was named Commander of the Texas Marine Depart
Battle of Galveston
…Harbor (October 1862) is sometimes called the First Battle of Galveston. Two Confederate cottonclads, CS Bayou City and the CS Neptune commanded by Leon Smith, sailed from Houston to Galveston in an effort to engage the Union Fleet in Galveston Harbor, which consisted of USS Clifton, USS Harriet Lane, USS…
Leon Smith in uniform
Steamship Star of the West approaching Fort Sumter
Photo Leon Smith as published in governor Lubbock's memoirs Six Decades in Texas (1900). The caption reads "Commodore Leon Smith, C.S.N", however Smith was never officially in the confederate navy, and while described variously as a naval lieutenant, captain, and commodore or army major, and colonel, he was not actually a commissioned by either army or navy.