Bob Stone Camp

Bob Bean was chosen captain when the camp organized, and by 1912 it kept grounds at Nocona and held a reunion there every year. The national body it joined, the United Confederate Veterans, was organized in New Orleans on June 10, 1889, and its local camps reached 1,555 by 1898. Its stated aims were social, literary, historical and benevolent, and it also carried Lost Cause themes, a postwar story that minimized slavery's part in the war. Its last national reunion was in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1951, and it dissolved on December 31 of that year.

What the plaque says

Bob Stone Camp In 1880, the Bob Stone Camp began in Montague County as a means for Confederate veterans of the Civil War to gather. Named in honor of deceased Col. Bob Stone, the camp hosted annual summer reunions for veterans and their families in the area. By 1893, the Bob Stone Camp joined the United Confederate Veterans (UCV), a national association. In 1899, Nocona became the permanent home of the Bob Stone Camp, on land west of town donated by D.C. Jordan. Summer programs featured presentations and events attended by Confederate and Union veterans, families and friends from north Texas and Oklahoma. The Bob Stone Camp was active until the last local Civil War veterans died in the 1940s. (2019)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Stonewall Saloon Museum — 14 mi
  Saint Jo's first permanent building, a stone saloon of 1873 with rooms upstairs for trail drovers, in a town named, the story goes, as a joke on a founder who did not drink.
• Clay County 1890 Jail Museum — 26 mi
  Henrietta's 1890 stone jail a block from the domed courthouse, now the county museum, with its original cells, a gallows that was never used and the sheriff's family quarters.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Nocona — 0.7 mi
• Farmers and Merchants National Bank — 0.7 mi
• Red River Station — 1.9 mi
• Red River Station — 7.0 mi