La Pryor vicinity, TX, United States
Camp Nueces, C.S.A.. Founded April 1862 near this site, to guard vital traffic as it crossed the Nueces on the San Antonio Eagle Pass Road. A post of the Confederacy's frontier regiment, under Col. James M. Norris. Its duty was to see that cotton got through to Mexico and munitions, medicines and fa
ctory goods came north to supply the Confederacy. One of the chain of posts a day's horseback ride apart, on line from Red River to Rio Grande. Never able to relax, in constant danger of Indian raids;
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