​Val Verde Battery
​C.S.A.

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Marker Text: ​Six brass field guns taken by Lt. Joseph D. Sayers' Company in Civil War Battle of Val Verde, N. Mex., 1862, and brought back to Texas with incredible difficulty, armed a new unit of hand-picked men. Sound of the Val Verde guns in action set pace for other outfits, helped secure such victories as the recapture of Galveston, 1863.
      At Mansfield, La., April 1864, captured new, longer-range guns. 
      Unwilling to lose their guns when the war ended, the men buried four. The last commander, T. D. Nettles, brought this one home to Freestone County. (1964)

Marker No: 9909

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.724478, -96.159988

Location: Courthouse lawn, Commerce Street between Mount and Keechi Street, Fairfield