La Victoria

Carlos de la Garza, who led a force of rancheros allied with Gen. Jos? de Urrea 's army and was responsible for Amon B. King 's defeat in the battle of Refugio , was born at La Bah?a presidio in 1807, the son of Antonio de la Garza, a soldier and rancher stationed at Goliad. As a young man Garza served in the Mexican army. He married in 1829 and that year or the next moved with his wife, Tomasita, to the family ranch established by his father at Carlos Crossing on the San Antonio River, on the Victoria-Refugio road about twelve miles below Goliad. On October 28, 1834, Garza obtained title as a Power and Hewetson qv colonist to a league of land, including the area of the old Garza ranch, bordering the San Antonio River in what is now Victoria County. A community called Carlos Rancho already had developed at Carlos Crossing, where Garza operated a commissary and supervised his extensive livestock holdings.