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Marker No: 12649

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.424517, -98.492744

Marker Text: In a 2-story stone building, afterwards a hotel, Vance House.
  Established as administrative offices for U.S. army during the Mexican War, 1846-1847.
  At this site on Feb. 16, 1861, Gen. David E. Twiggs surrendered $1,600,000 in Federal property to forces of Confederate Texas.
  For a year headquarters for Texas Military Affairs, which were later administered from Houston, Bonham and Shreveport.
​  Site is part of complex of San Antonio military tradition that extends from early Spanish day, to the Alamo, to 20th century. (1965) 

Location: 107 East Houston, inside Gunter Hotel, San Antonio