Matagorda Island, Texas

Located along the mid-Texas Gulf coast, not too far from Houston. The island is 38 miles long with an average width of a mile and a half. French explorer La Salle landed there in February 1665. The wreck of his ship, the LaBelle, was recently recovered from near the island.

Evidently, during the Civil War it was used as an assembling area, but I didn't come across any mention of a Union camp being there. Looking at a map of the island, I think the 69th Indiana might have been crossing at the eastern extremity of the island.

--Old B-R'er