Transcript File battles of texas

January 20, 2012
Warm-up:
Which region of the state they would attack if they
were Union Army generals and why?
Objective
TSW be able to explain Texas’
role in the civil war and the
Civil War Battles that took
place in Texas by completing
a waterfall foldable.
Each student will receive a waterfall foldable
Write your name in the back of the foldable
Title the front of the waterfall foldable:
The Texas Civil War Battles
Title the top flap
The Texas Civil War Battles
Title the rest of the flaps with the following
titles:
The Battle of Galveston
The Battle of Sabine Pass
War in the Trans-Mississippi
The Battle for the Texas Coast
The Battle of Laredo
The Red River Campaign
Title the top flap
The Texas Civil War Battles
Title the rest of the flaps with the following titles:
-The Battle of Galveston
-The Battle of Sabine Pass
-War in the Trans-Mississippi
-The Battle for the Texas Coast
-The Battle of Laredo
-The Red River Campaign
-Writing Prompt
• Open your textbook to Chapter 12.2: Texas in
the Civil War
• For each battle you will write the following:
WHO:
WHAT:
WHEN:
WHERE:
WHY:
OUTCOME:
The Battle of Galveston
WHO: Union and Confederacy (Texas) Navies
WHAT: Blockade of Galveston
WHEN: 1863
WHERE: Galveston Bay
WHY: Union wanted to stop imports and exports
OUTCOME: Confederacy retook Galveston bay.
The Union retreated. Galveston stayed
Confederate.
The Battle of Sabine Pass
WHO: Union Navy vs. Confederate Army
WHAT: Union bombed Confederate fort  Fort
disabled ships and captured 300 Union troops
WHEN: September 8, 1863
WHERE: Sabine Pass
WHY: Union wanted to invade Texas
OUTCOME: Union failed and didn’t invade Texas
War in the Trans-Mississippi
WHO: Texas Confederate troops
WHAT: Fought battles to battles to protect
Louisiana
WHEN: 1864
WHERE: Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas
WHY: to protect Louisiana from Union-Louisiana
troops were fighting in Virginia
OUTCOME: Defended Louisiana
The Battle for the Texas Coast
WHO: Union and Confederacy Navies
WHAT: Captured Brownsville
WHEN: November 1863
WHERE: Laredo, Rio Grande, Indiana
WHY: To end imports and exports in Texas
OUTCOME: Union troops occupied the port
town of Indiola
The Battle of Laredo
WHO: Colonel Santos Benzuides and Tejano
troops, union troops
WHAT: fought the most
WHEN: springs of 1864
WHERE: Laredo
WHY: They tried to burn cotton storage
OUTCOME: drove off the Union troops
The Red River Campaign
WHO: Union troops
WHAT: they tried to invade Texas
WHEN: Late Spring of 1864
WHERE: Louisiana, Henderson, Marshall, Tyler
WHY: To capture the Red River
OUTCOME: Banks retreated down the Red River
Essential Question
• Which of the Battles that took place in TX did
TX win and which did they loose?
Pre-AP Writing Prompt for last Tab
What battle in Texas do you think
is the most important and why?
(at least five complete sentences)