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Stories.

There are several haunted locations in the United States brought about by the Civil War.

Not surprising when you consider that 620,000 Americans lost their life during this war.

More than half of these casualties did not happen on the battlefield, though.

These deaths were attributed to disease or festering wounds.

We always think about the haunted battlefields of Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Fort Sumter, to name a few.

Rarely do we talk about the smaller battlefields.

Today you will learn about Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, a fort where the very

last battle of the Civil War was fought. Strangely enough, the battle should never have taken place.

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Oh Way down at the very bottom of the Rio Grande Valley at what one might call the jumping

off place lies a beautiful city of some 95,000 souls called Brownsville, Texas.

The city sits just across the Rio Grande from its sister city, Marmoros, and the Mexican state of Tomolipas.

The two cities are in one of the most interesting and intriguing regions in Texas dating back to the Spanish colonial days

and covering periods of exploration, wars, revolutions, banditry, and you name it, it was there.

General Zachary Taylor established Fort Brown in 1846 to maintain the United States claim

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