On May 13, 1865, more than a month after the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the last land action of the Civil War took place at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville. The battle lasted four hours. Confederate casualties were a few dozen wounded. Federal troops lost 111 men and four officers captured, and thirty men wounded or killed. Four days earlier, former Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by federal troops near Abbeville, Ga., with former Texas governor Francis R. Lubbock and Confederate postmaster and temporary treasurer John H. Reagan after Davis fled the captured capital of Richmond., Va., on April 2.