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Keywords:Texas Historical Marker, Fayette County Historical Marker, Creuzbaur's Battery, C%dS%dA%d, The Big Guns of Fayette
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Dimensions4288 x 2848
Original file size6.29 MB
Image typeJPEG
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Date taken21-Apr-12 11:16
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Camera makeNIKON CORPORATION
Camera modelNIKON D90
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ISO speedISO 200
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Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. "The Big Guns of Fayette"

Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. "The Big Guns of Fayette"

Schulenburg br/Fayette County, Texas br/29 43.069' N 96 55.663' W br/br/Text: Organized in Fayette County, 1861, by Edmund Creuzbaur, a former Prussian artillery officer, and composed of around 150 men, 4 cannon, 72 horses, 39 mules. 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.