Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, your award-winning Texas History Podcast.

I'm your host Ken Wise.

I want to thank you for tuning in today for a little Texas History.

I hope everybody had a great Christmas and New Year's.

We are ready to get into 2022 and some more great Texas history.

I want to mention first that the Why's About Texas YouTube channel is slowly getting

populated with podcast episodes and short videos that I take in my travels around Texas. I've got several. I'm going to continue to do it. It's taking a while to get this stuff up on YouTube. But it's getting on there and the channel hopefully will provide you

with another outlet for Texas history content I'm going to put all the

podcast episodes up there so you can listen to them on

YouTube and send them around but like I mentioned I'm going to do some other videos.

Who knows what we're going to be able to do.

So I'm going to look forward to expanding the Wies About Texas history efforts on to YouTube.

Today we are going to be talking about a sad but moving story. It involves a

situation that occurred during the Battle of Galveston.

The Battle of Galveston was a battle in the Civil War that started on January 1st,

1863. So since this is the first episode that I'm releasing in the new year,

I thought we'd go back and cover a story that happened in the context of the battle. I'm not going to do the whole battle,

and I doubt I will do the whole battle without getting my friend Ed Cotham back on the podcast.

We talked to him earlier this year about Juneteenth, he is an expert on the Battle of Galveston.

So I'm not going to do anything on the Battle of Galveston without talking to him first.

But there's a story that happened during and after the battle that I do want you to hear.

So let's go back to 1863 and get wise about Texas. During the Civil War, one of the things that the North did early on was attempt to blockade all of the ports in the South.

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