Camp Stonewall Jackson
Holliday, Archer County, Texas
Marker Inscription
106 acres of land bought 1898 by United Confederate Veterans of Archer County for reunion grounds. Meetings lasting 3 days were held annually until 1935. Approximately 500 people attended each year. Activities included ball games, dancing, visiting, contests, shows and rodeos. Erected by the Archer County Historical Survey Committee. (1967)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
In 1898 the United Confederate Veterans of Archer County purchased 106 acres as reunion grounds, naming the camp for the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson. For nearly four decades, until 1935, aging veterans and their families gathered here each year for three-day reunions that drew some five hundred people. Alongside the memories and speeches came ball games, dancing, contests, shows, and rodeos.
Why it matters
The camp captures the era of Confederate veterans' reunions, when the generation that fought the Civil War built enduring rituals of memory that shaped how the South remembered the war for decades.
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