Historical Marker
Captain Hayden Arnold
Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County · Texas
Erected 1936
Hayden S. Arnold reached Texas in late December 1835 and enrolled at Nacogdoches in January 1836. In March his company elected him captain in Col. Sidney Sherman's regiment. At San Jacinto in April, the Handbook of Texas says, his rifle was shot from his hands. He then sat in the First Congress for Nacogdoches, October 1836 to June 1837, and Sam Houston appointed him secretary of a commission to treat with the Indians. He died at home on July 3, 1839. In 1851 Adolphus Sterne introduced a Senate bill for the relief of Arnold's heirs.
What the plaque says
Captain Hayden Arnold Commanded the Nacogdoches Company at the Battle of San Jacinto Born in Tennessee, 1805 Died in 1839 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
Where it stands
31.60267, -94.64996 · Directions
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