Barton Warren Stone

Stone's command was the Sixth Texas Cavalry, mustered into Confederate service at Dallas on September 6, 1861. As colonel, the Dallas attorney recruited ten companies from seven North Texas counties, about 1,150 men, at Camp Bartow. The Handbook of Texas calls him unpopular. After the regiment was dismounted in April 1862 and the Conscription Act took effect, he resigned and returned to Texas when he was not promoted to brigadier general. Lawrence Sullivan Ross later led the regiment, which fought at Pea Ridge, Corinth, Holly Springs and in the Atlanta campaign.

What the plaque says

Barton Warren Stone (1817 - 1881) Kentucky native Barton Warren Stone came to Dallas from Tennessee in 1851. He prospered at farming and the practice of law. In 1852 he helped lead a rebellion against Peters Colony agent H. O. Hedgecoxe. Though initially opposed to Texas' secession, Stone organized and commanded two Confederate Cavalry regiments during the Civil War. He later moved his family to a farm in Missouri, but returned to Dallas in 1879 to practice law. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

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