Camp Pecan, C.S.A.

Camp Pecan stood where the road from Camp Colorado to Camp Cooper crossed Pecan Bayou. Col. James M. Norris chose the site in March 1862 as one of eighteen Frontier Regiment posts on a line running some 500 miles from the Red River to the Rio Grande. Half of Capt. Frank M. Collier's company held it, the other half Camp Collier in Brown County, and patrols rode out on alternate days. In October 1862 Norris ordered both camps emptied and the company consolidated at Camp Colorado. The Handbook of Texas says no trace of Camp Pecan remains.

What the plaque says

This Civil War camp of the Texas frontier regiment was located 21 miles southeast. Established in 1862 as one of a line of posts a day's horseback ride apart. The number of men guarding the frontier were few. Trouble came from all directions with Indian threats and raids from the west and plundering renegades and deserters from the east. Food, supplies, clothing and horses were constantly scarce. But in spite of all obstacles, these Confederates managed to effectively hold the frontier line of settlement. A Memorial to Texans who served the Confederacy, erected by the State of Texas 1963.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frontier Texas! — 20 mi
  Abilene's multimedia museum of the frontier as the settlers told it, beside the Texas and Pacific tracks the town was built on, and the official visitor center for the Texas Forts Trail.
• Old Jail Art Center — 23 mi
  An art museum in Albany's 1878 stone jail, where the masons carved their initials to be sure of pay, now holding Chinese tomb figures and works by Picasso and Klee.
• Fort Phantom Hill — 24 mi
  A field of lone stone chimneys north of Abilene, left by the fire after the Army left in 1854, later a stage stop and a buffalo-hide town of more than 500 people.
• Conrad Hilton Center and Mobley Hotel — 24 mi
  The 40-room oil-boom hotel in Cisco that Conrad Hilton bought in 1919 when a bank deal fell through, now a museum of the Hilton start and of Cisco's 1927 Santa Claus bank robbery.

More markers nearby

• Callahan County — steps away
• First Presbyterian Church of Baird — steps away
• First Baptist Church of Baird — steps away
• Captain Andrew Jackson Berry — 1.1 mi