Excerpt from The Old Artillery Company of Galveston: Sketch Written by Special RequestMarch 6 - Capture of Fort Brown by forces under General Nichols and Colonel Ford.April 17 - Capture of blockade runner Star of the West by the company, under Captain Van Buren, Lieutenants Malone and Mann with two 6-pounders.August 3 - Detachment causes U. S. Steamer South Carolina to withdraw, after firing on South Fort, Twenty-first Street and sand hills.August 8 - South' Fort with but a few rounds of ammunition. Many members of Artillery Company join other military companies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.