Texas in the Civil War
Adjutants General
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Marker Text: Texas in 1861-1865 had 90,000 men fighting for the south-many in units east of the Mississippi yet at home she had to defend 2,000 miles of coastline and frontier form constant threats made by Federals, Indians and outlaws.
The State Adjutant general filled the necessary Confederate Troop requisitions. At the same time, he organized, posted and supplied the Texas frontier regiment in a string of forts a day's horseback ride apart, from the Rio Grande to the Red River. He was also assigned the duties of State inspector General, Commissary General, Ordnance Officer and Quartermaster, he handled state correspondence on military affairs, distributing orders and forms kept records of the state troop and assembled registers of Texans in Confederate service; had general charge of all military property; collected and repaired arms; inspected arsenals and magazines received and distributed munitions. From an 1861 salary of $500. pay for this office was increased by 1865 to $2,000 a year. N.H. Darnell, Dallas; Wm. Byrd, Austin; J.Y. Dashiell, San Antonio; D.B. Culbertson, Jefferson; and John Burke of Marshall successively held this difficult office. (1965) |
Marker No: 6466
Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker
Geographic: 30.309839,-97.759575
Location: Camp Mabry front lawn near entrance on West 35th Street, Austin