Alexander Travis Hawthorn

Hawthorn's path to Marshall ran through exile. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says he was born in Conecuh County, Alabama, in 1825, attended Yale Law School for two years and practiced in Camden, Arkansas. He became colonel of the Sixth Arkansas after its colonel was killed in October 1861, and led it at Shiloh. After the war he fled to Mexico and then Brazil, where he lived until 1874. He settled in Atlanta, was ordained a Baptist minister in 1880, later served in Marshall, and died in Dallas on May 31, 1899.

What the plaque says

Alexander Travis Hawthorn (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

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 0.5 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 0.8 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.9 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Jefferson Historical Museum — 14 mi
  A four-floor museum in Jefferson's 1888-90 federal post office and courthouse, with rooms for African-American history, Jewish heritage, the Caddo and Diamond Bessie, bought by the historical society in 1965 for $8,100.

More markers nearby

• Lt. Gen. George Perry Rains — steps away
• Matthew Duncan Ector — steps away
• East Texas Baptist University — steps away
• Van Zandt Hill — 0.2 mi