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Camp Breckenridge, C.S.A.

Breckenridge, Stephens County

Marker Text

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

Marker Details

Address US 180 at Courthouse
Location Description SW corner Courthouse Square, US 180, Breckenridge.
Marker # 653
Dedicated 1963
Size, Type Civil War Memorials - (pink granite)
Code Civil War; military topics
Latitude, Longitude 32.75548, -98.904636

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