There has been a lot of controversy about what happened to the Twin Sisters, those famous cannons that Sam Houston used at San Jacinto. Were they buried in Harrisburg? Were they sent back east after the Civil War? And what about all of those confusing and conflicting stories about the Twins?
The real cannons made in Cincinnati for the Texas revolution and used to good effect at San Jacinto ended the Civil War in Brownsville, after which they were given to the Mexican army and briefly used to defend Matamoros, then returned to Fort Brown.
The two cannons buried in Harrisburg in 1865 and searched for several times since are probably no longer there. They were discovered and dug up only four months after they were buried.
Click on the following link to check out this historical update on the Twin Sisters and the four other pairs of cannons that were mistakenly though of by many as the real guns of San Jacinto.
What happened to the Twin Sisters and their imposters?
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