Val Verde County
Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Formed from Crockett, Kinney and Pecos counties. Created March 24, 1885. Organized March 31, 1885. Named in honor of the battle fought at Val Verde, near Fort Craig, New Mexico, February 19, 1862. Del Rio, the county seat.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Carved from Crockett, Kinney, and Pecos counties and organized in 1885, Val Verde County took its name from a Civil War battle fought in 1862 near Fort Craig, New Mexico. That fight was part of the Confederacy's ambitious campaign to seize the Southwest, and its memory carried west with the veterans who settled the region. Del Rio, on the Rio Grande, became the county seat.
Why it matters
The county's very name keeps alive the Confederacy's failed bid for the West, showing how the Civil War echoed far beyond its eastern battlefields.
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Related events
- · Battle of Val Verde, 1862
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