Editing Kinney County, Texas (section)

===County established===

The state legislature formed Kinney County from [[Bexar County, Texas|Bexar County]] in 1850, five years after Texas statehood, and named it for [[Henry Lawrence Kinney]].<ref name="Kinney County, Texas"/> The United States Army established [[Fort Clark, Texas|Fort Clark]] in June 1852 on Las Moras Creek, and named it after John B. Clark, who had died in the Mexican War.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hudnall|first=Ken and Sharon|title=Spirits of the Border V: The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State|year=2005|publisher=Omega Press|isbn=978-0-9626087-9-7|pages=266–267}}</ref> Brackettville was founded in 1852 originally as the town of Brackett and named for Oscar B. Brackett, who came to set up a stage stop and opened the town's first dry-goods store. Brackett became a stop on a stage line from San Antonio to El Paso, but the settlement grew very slowly because of continuous Indian attacks. The town received its first post office in 1875.<ref name="Brackettville, Texas">{{cite web|title=Brackettville, Texas|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHillCountryTowns/BrackettvilleTexas/BrackettvilleTx.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=December 14, 2010}}</ref> On February 18, 1861, on orders from [[David E. Twiggs|United States Army General David E. Twiggs]], Fort Clark was surrendered to the Texas Commission. Twiggs was dismissed by the United States for the act, and subsequently joined the Confederacy. The fort was evacuated by federal troops on March 19 and occupied by Confederate troops under the command of Confederate Colonel [[John R. Baylor]]. It remained in the hands of the Confederates until the end of the war, but was not garrisoned. In December 1866, it was reestablished as a federal fort.