Camp Breckenridge, C.S.A.
Breckenridge, Stephens County, Texas
Marker Inscription
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. A memorial to Texans who served the Confederacy; Erected by the State of Texas 1963
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Established near this site in 1862, Camp Breckenridge was one link in a Confederate frontier defense line that stretched from the Red River to the Rio Grande, manned by a company of the Texas Frontier Regiment. Riding posts a day apart, these poorly fed and under-equipped men patrolled a vast country to curb raids and round up draft evaders and renegades while the great battles raged far to the east. They won few glories, but some gave their lives protecting the settlers left behind.
Why it matters
It recalls the forgotten home-front war on the Texas frontier, where Confederate soldiers guarded settlers rather than fighting the Union armies of the East.
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