Camp Breckenridge C. S. A.
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Marker Text: Established near this site 1862. Part Confederate frontier defense line from Red River to Rio Grande. Occupied by company of Texas Frontier Regiment. Posts were day's horseback ride apart and area patrolled regularly. Duties included curbing Indian raids, rounding up draft evaders and renegades. Confederates were poorly fed, clothed and lacked horses, ammunition. They shared few of the glories of the war, but at the cost of the lives of not a few of them, these men gave a measure of protection to a vast frontier area. (1963)
Marker No: 653
Pink Granite Civil War Memorial
Geographic: 32.755482, -98.904633
Location: Southwest corner Courthouse Square, US 180, Breckenridge.
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