Capt. F. Marion Hastings
Mt. Vernon, Franklin County, Texas
Marker Inscription
(Nov. 17, 1823 - April 25, 1905) Confederate veteran. Enlisting in 1861, Dade County, Mo., served under Generals Sterling Price, Joseph O. Shelby, J. S. Marmaduke, in raids in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Surrendered June 13, 1865, at Shreveport. Moved to Texas in October 1865. Was a Franklin County commissioner, 1877-1881; county judge, 1886-1890. He married Harriet J. Irby of Yalobusha County, Mississippi. They had six children. (1970)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Born in 1823, F. Marion Hastings enlisted from Dade County, Missouri, in 1861 and rode with Sterling Price, Jo Shelby, and John S. Marmaduke through the hard-fought cavalry raids that swept Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Surrendering at Shreveport in June 1865, he came to Texas that autumn and rebuilt a public life on the Franklin County frontier, serving as county commissioner and then county judge into the 1890s. His path from Confederate trooper to local jurist traces the wider story of Southern veterans who shaped Reconstruction-era Texas.
Why it matters
Markers like this one connect the sprawling Trans-Mississippi campaigns of the Civil War to the individual soldiers who carried its aftermath into the civic life of postwar Texas.
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Related people
- · F. Marion Hastings
- · Sterling Price
- · Joseph O. Shelby
- · John S. Marmaduke
- · Harriet J. Irby
Related events
- · Price's Missouri raids
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