Capt. Jose Antonio Menchaca

Menchaca fought for Texas and later protested how it treated men like him. In February 1836 he joined Juan N. Seguín's company of Texas Mexicans at Gonzales and fought at San Jacinto. In 1842 he commanded a frontier company and was wounded in the leg defending San Antonio against Woll's invasion. In 1875 he and eighteen other Bexar residents of Mexican descent wrote to the state comptroller charging discrimination against Hispanic veterans of the Revolution. Residents of Manchaca in Travis County say their town took its name from springs named for him.

What the plaque says

Capt. Jose Antonio Menchaca A veteran of San Jacinto. Born in San Antonio 1797. Died November 1, 1879. His wife Teresa Ramon Menchaca. Born in July, 1796. Died February 7, 1874. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 1.0 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.
• King William Historic District — 1.0 mi
  Mission farmland turned German merchants' quarter on the San Antonio River, renamed in World War I, then saved by a neighbor who restored fourteen houses, starting with his own.
• Spanish Governor's Palace — 1.1 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 1.2 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.

More markers nearby

• Jose Antonio Navarro — steps away
• Placido Olivarri — steps away
• Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz — steps away
• Alejo de la Encarnacion Perez — steps away