42nd Reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade

Hood's Texas Brigade Association was founded on May 14, 1872, by Confederate veterans of the brigade, and met almost every year afterward. The Handbook counts sixty-three reunions, the last in Houston in 1933, when only two men were still able to attend, E. W. B. Leach and Sam O. Moodie, both ninety-one. The brigade had carried roughly 4,400 Texans through the war and suffered a 61 percent casualty rate. The association's efforts produced a thirty-five-foot monument at the Capitol in Austin, dedicated in 1910. Temple's meeting was one of those gatherings.

What the plaque says

42nd Reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade Honored the late General John B. Hood, for whom Fort Hood was named. Meetings were in First Baptist Church. Transportation from Carnegie Library (convention headquarters) was by one of the first auto parades in Temple. J.W. Stevens, Chaplain, Hood's original brigade, conducted the annual memorial ceremony. Other speakers included Dr. T.A. Pope, of Cameron, and Hon. W.B. Lane, State Comptroller. Convention ended with rousing rendition of Confederate war song, "Dixie". This association, founded in 1872, held reunions until 1934. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 0.3 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Mother Neff State Park — 18 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 28 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.

More markers nearby

• Temple College — steps away
• City of Temple — steps away
• Site of the Organization of the Texas Forestry Association — steps away
• Knob Creek Lodge No. 401, A.F. & A.M. — steps away