Camp Henry E. McCullouch

The troops disliked this camp. Soldiers called the site insect-infested and unhealthful, so the Victoria Male Academy was rented from the city to serve as the camp hospital. The recruits wore butternut uniforms made at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Colonel Robert Garland, a Virginian who had left the U.S. Army after Fort Sumter fell, drilled them until they marched with precision. When the regiment left on May 22, 1862, the flag Victoria's women were making was not ready and had to be forwarded. It was captured at Arkansas Post.

What the plaque says

Camp Henry E. McCullouch At the suggestion of Confederate Col. Henry McCullouch, an area near this site north of Victoria, known as Nuner's Mott, was selected for the establishment of a military training camp in 1861. Troops from Bell, Bexar, Calhoun, DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Matagorda, Travis, and Victoria counties began arriving that September. Col. Robert Garland of Virginia was appointed regimental commander. The entire regiment, now known as the Sixth Texas Infantry, trained at Camp McCullouch until May 1862. Captured at Arkansas Post in 1863, the regiment later fought in the Battles of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville before finally surrendering with the Army of Tennessee in North Carolina. (1998)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 3.6 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• De León Plaza — 3.8 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 17 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 23 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.

More markers nearby

• Camp Victoria — 1.0 mi
• Tonkawa Bank — 2.1 mi
• First Presbyterian Church of Victoria — 2.8 mi
• William Robert Smith — 2.9 mi