Walter Paye Lane
Marshall, Harrison County, Texas
Marker Inscription
(Star and Wreath) Soldier in the Texas War for Independence. Major in the Mexican War. Brigadier general, C.S.A. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Walter Paye Lane's life traced the whole arc of nineteenth-century Texas at war. He fought as a soldier in the Texas War for Independence, rose to major in the Mexican War, and served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. The State of Texas erected this marker in his honor in 1962.
Why it matters
Careers like Lane's embodied the martial generation that carried Texas from revolution through statehood into the Civil War, fighting in nearly every conflict of the era.
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Related people
- · Walter Paye Lane
Related events
- · Texas War for Independence
- · Mexican-American War
- · American Civil War
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