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
About this site
Camp Breckenridge, C.S.A. is a historical marker in Breckenridge, Stephens County, dedicated in 1963. It is one of 17 historical markers documented in Stephens County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 67 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7556, -98.9048 near Breckenridge. The nearest cataloged historic site is Swenson Memorial Museum (museum), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Stephens County Courthouse, Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years, and First National Bank Building, Old.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5429000653. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
