Historical Marker
Alexander Travis Hawthorn
Historical marker location:
Herndon Street, Marshall, Texas
( Greenwood Cemetery, W end of East Avenue)
Marker installed: 1963
(January 10, 1825 - May 31, 1899)
Native of Alabama, Arkansas lawyer, colonel commanding 6th Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiment at Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, commended for action at Helena and Fort Hindman in Arkansas, brigadier-general in Confederate Army, commended for gallantry while leading brigade in Battle of Jenkins' Ferry in Arkansas, postwar Georgia businessman, Baptist minister in Texas from 1880 to 1899.
Erected by the State of Texas, 1963.