Historical Marker
Site of The Johnston Huston Duel
Historical marker location:
FM 234, Edna, Texas
( from Edna, take US 59 about 3 miles SW, go south on FM 234 about 2 miles then go left through cattle guard, follow .4 miles. (drive is 2nd on left past County Road 306))
Marker installed: 1936
On this spot General Albert Sidney Johnston and General Felix Huston fought a duel February 5, 1837. General Johnston was seriously wounded. While commanding the Confederate army at the battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862, he was killed.