Brazos County Confederate Commissioners Court

The plaque lists what the wartime court bought and levied. The county it governed changed fast. At the end of 1867 federal authorities removed many officeholders, and by 1868 the county was dominated by the Republican party. Black men held seats on the commissioners court through the 1880s, and a Black county resident served in the Texas House in 1879 and 1889. In 1890 local White Democrats ran a "White Man's Campaign" that acted to disfranchise Black voters, though the Republican party stayed a force in county elections for a time.

What the plaque says

Brazos County Confederate Commissioners Court Furnished horses, equipment and clothing for county men in the Civil War. Levied war taxes on property, exempting lands or estates of Confederate soldiers. After surveying to determine needs of the families of Brazos soldiers, appropriated funds to care for them. Gave credits for contributions made by citizens to soldiers' dependents. Issued county warrants for 25 (cents), 50 (cents), $1, $2, $3 and $5 that passed as legal tender. Obtained for resale to the citizens scarce powder, lead, gun caps, medicines, shoes, cotton cards cloth, shoe makers' tools. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 5.5 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 25 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.
• Navasota — 26 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 27 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.

More markers nearby

• Town Named for William Joel Bryan — steps away
• Harvey Mitchell — steps away
• Brazos County — steps away
• John N. Johnson — steps away