A print of Brasos Santiago (St. James' inlet) and its entrance to the bay of Point Isabel. This print depicts a steam ship and a rowboat with passengers in the choppy waters of the harbor just off the coast of a sand-bar that stretches into the water and in the background are the masts of several other steam ships. Thorpe states that Point Isabel was originally a small Mexican village and held by Mexican troops (commanded by General Garcia and 250 men) with military stores before General Taylor and his troops made it into a military base. Thorpe also describes Brazos Santiago as important to the commerce and business community of Matamoros but the area was frequented by storms which could lead to ship wrecks from vessels blown ashore. [This lithograph is from the book "Our Army on the Rio Grande, being a short account of the important events transpiring from the time of the removal of the army of occupation from Chorpus Christi to the surrender of Matamoros" by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, opposite page 45]
