Confederate Cavalry
Fort Grigsby, a small Confederate post during the Civil War, was located on the Neches River at present-day Port Neches in Texas.
Confederate Major Julius Kellersberg built the post in October 1862. It was to be but one of a series of posts built as river defenses to block a possible Union advance up the Neches River after the fall of Fort Sabine. Though consisting only of mud embankments reinforced by upright pointed logs, the post was defended by two 24-pound guns overlooking a bend in the river. It was no longer necessary after the construction of Fort Manhassett and was abandoned sometime after July 1863.
The site is located eleven miles southeast of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County.
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
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