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.

Well we think about the haunted battlefields of Gettysburg, Shallow, 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 the Civil War was fought.

Strangely enough the battle should never have taken place.

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 caught Brownsville, Texas.

The city sits just across the Rio Grande from its sister city, Matamoros, and the Mexican

state of Toma Lepas.

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 claims

of the Rio Grande as the international boundary, the line that was won 10 years earlier by Texans

in our battle for independence from Mexican domination.

The old fort housed troops during the Mexican War, defended the border, and later exchanged

hands during the Civil War.

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