Captain Andrew Jackson Berry
Baird, Callahan County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Born in Indiana May 16, 1816. Died at Baird, Texas July 31, 1899. Veteran of San Jacinto. Officer in the Confederate Army.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Andrew Jackson Berry was born in Indiana in 1816 and lived long enough to bridge two defining conflicts of 19th-century Texas. As a young man he fought at San Jacinto, the 1836 battle that won Texas its independence, and decades later he served as an officer in the Confederate Army. He died at Baird in 1899, one of the dwindling number of men who could claim both distinctions.
Why it matters
His life spans the arc from Texas's founding revolution to the Civil War, linking the birth of the Republic with the Confederacy in a single generation of the frontier South.
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