Camp of the Army of the Republic of Texas

Historical marker location:

Lindale, Texas

( US 69 at intersection w/ CR 431 (Old Lindale-Mineola Rd.), 7 mi. north of Lindale)

Marker installed: 1975

Last Cherokee War. Under Gen. Kelsey H. Douglass, Gen. Thomas J. Rusk, Gen. Edward Burleson, and Col. Willis H. Landrum. Texas Secretary of War Albert Sidney Johnston ordered the army mustered out after its decisive victory in Battle of the Neches against Chief Bowles of the Cherokees and associated tribes on July 16, 1839, in Van Zandt County. From the Burleson Lake Camp, the soldiers departed for their homes on July 15, 1839.

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