Battle of Sabine Pass. Civil War Battle
Channel: cthomashannon
Date: 2011-08-09

***updated this video in 2024, https://youtu.be/prbm7e_Gxww?si=fDwkYZCGWjPGA0o6***



I made this video in a Gilder Lehrman seminar at Columbia University in New York City in late July of 2011. 

The Battle of Sabine Pass is remembered today as an obscure battle fought on the Texas-Louisiana border, but in 1863 it was considered a huge success for the Confederacy.