[DOC] [TLE] CIVIL WAR | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical ... [PAR] By the end of 1861, 25,000 Texans were in the Confederate army. ... One 
regiment, recruited mainly in the Houston area, served under the colorful Rip 
Ford in South Texas. ... After a small skirmish, federal troops commanded by Maj. 
.... The large battles of the Civil War were fought beyond the Mississippi River, far 
from... [DOC] [TLE] Civil War in the Lone Star State - Texas State Historical Association [PAR] Texas has a special place in history and in the minds of people throughout the 
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of Gen. [DOC] [TLE] William Tecumseh Sherman - Wikipedia [PAR] William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator 
and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil 
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and ... Georgia, and Florida in April 1865, after having been present at most 
major... [DOC] [TLE] Chisholm Trail - Wikipedia [PAR] The Chisholm Trail was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle 
overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The portion of the trail 
marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post near the Red 
River, to his northern trading post near Kansas City, Kansas. ... By the end of the 
Civil War, most cattle were being moved up the western... [DOC] [TLE] The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1861-1865 [PAR] Cover: Detail from Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, c. ... start of the American Civil 
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Confederacy with resources, Texas gave the Confederacy its .... a defeat after a 
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When the war ended, many US fliers returned to Texas and became civilian .... 
After several months in Mexico City, Austin was arrested on his way back to ... at 
Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, on 13 May 1865more than a month after Gen
. [DOC] [TLE] Anniversaries 1 thru 15 May2016 - FRA Branch #245 [PAR] May 01 1863  Civil War: First of the 7 day Battle of Chancellorsville. ... and 
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month. ... May 
01 1972  Vietnam: North Vietnamese troops capture Quang Tri City, the first 
provincial .... The Union army was reeling after Confederate General Stonewall 
Jackson's... [DOC] [TLE] Bull Run, July 21, 1861 - Essential Civil War Curriculum [PAR] After Bull Run both sides became determined not to return to major fighting until 
they ... The first genuinely great battle of the war took place one hundred days 
after the ... Here and there, in places in Virginia, Texas, and Missouri, for example
, .... with the three-month volunteers, whose terms were about to come to an end. [DOC] [TLE] Civil War Biographies: Hooper-Johnstone | Green-Wood [PAR] Hooper was commissioned captain on August 28, 1865, the date he was ... 
During the Civil War, he served for three months in 1861 as a private with the 1st 
Delaware Infantry. ..... Civil War service, he settled in New York City after his 
Naval service ended .... His funeral took place at the 33rd Street Baptist Church 
and was... [DOC] [TLE] Lew Wallace and the French Intervention in Mexico | Miller | Indiana ... [PAR] In 1865, after the close of the Civil War, Wallace received a secret assignment ... 
At the beginning of 1865 the end of the Civil War was in

Question: In 1865 a Civil War battle took place in this "colorful" Texas city -- a month after the war ended
Answer: Brownsville