​On Burleson Lake 3.5 miles west
​of here was the Last Cherokee War
Camp of the Army of the
Republic of Texas

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Marker Text: Under Gen. Kelsey H. Douglass, Gen. Thomas J. Rusk, Gen. Edward Burleson, and Col. Willis H. Landrum. Texas Secretary of War Albert Sidney Johnston ordered the army mustered out after its decisive victory in Battle of the Neches against Chief Bowles of the Cherokees and associated tribes on July 16, 1839, in Van Zandt County. From the Burleson Lake Camp, the soldiers departed for their homes on July 25, 1839. (1975) 

Marker No: 7710

18 x 28 Aluminum Subject Marker 

Geographic: ​32° 36.397′ N, 95° 29.068′ W

Location: intersection of Mineola Highway (U.S. 69) and Old Mineola Highway (County Route 431), on the left when traveling north on Mineola Highway.