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 Posted: Fri Aug 11th, 2006 03:08 pm
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David White
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 They tried to create a rocket battery in Texas, the engineer who built the defenses at Sabine Pass oversaw that project, pretty good description here and why it didn't work:

http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/kellersbe.htm

Here is a pretty good overview in this link, says JEB Stuart used them at Harrison's Landing.  The ballistic missile thing may be an urban legend perpetuated by Burke Davis:

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/rocket.htm