Details for Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. "The Big Guns of Fayette"
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5149001107
Data
| Marker Number | 1107 |
| Atlas Number | 5149001107 |
| Marker Title | Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. "The Big Guns of Fayette" |
| Index Entry | Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. "The Big Guns of Fayette" |
| Address | High Hill Rd. |
| City | Schulenburg |
| County | Fayette |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 700436 |
| UTM Northing | 3289347 |
| Subject Codes | Civil War; military topics |
| Marker Year | 1965 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | High Hill community, High Hill Rd., N side 60 feet E of FM 2672. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Organized in Fayette County, 1861, by Edmund Creuzbaur, a former Prussian artillery officer, and composed of around 150 men, 4 cannons, 72 horses, 39 mules. It served as both light and heavy field artillery at Fort Brown, Sabine Pass and other points in Texas and Louisiana. The unit at Calcasieu Pass, La., May 1864, attacked and captured two Union gunboats. In the 75-minute fight, one ship was hit 65 times; Wm. Kneip was killed; of the wounded, three later died. Capt. Creuzbaur soon after resigned and his brother-in-law, Capt. Charles Welhausen, assumed the command. (1965) |