Details for Fort Ringgold
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5061002012
Data
| Marker Number | 2012 |
| Atlas Number | 5061002012 |
| Marker Title | Fort Ringgold |
| Index Entry | Fort Ringgold |
| Address | Lee Circle |
| City | Rio Grande City |
| County | Starr |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 518968 |
| UTM Northing | 2917482 |
| Subject Codes | forts; Civil War; military topics; Mexican War |
| Marker Year | 1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Rio Grande City C.I.S.D. campus off US 83 |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 1936 Texa Centennial historical marker (gray granite) |
| Marker Text | Established October 26, 1848, at Davis Landing by Capt. J.H. La Motte, 1st U.S. Infantry, as Ringgold Barracks • • Named in honor of Brevet Major David Ringgold, 4th U.S. Artillery, who died of wounds received at Palo Alto, May 8, 1846 • Troops were withdrawn March 3, 1859 • Reoccupied December 29, 1859 • Abandoned in 1861 • Reoccupied by U.S. troops in June 1865 • General Robert E. Lee passed a few days here in 1856 and in 1860 Erected by the State of Texas, 1936 |