Captain William S. Fisher

William S. Fisher came from Virginia in 1834 and sat for Gonzales at the Consultation of 1835. After San Jacinto he served as the Republic's secretary of war from December 1836 to November 1837, a recess appointment the Senate never confirmed. Under Lamar he commanded regulars at San Antonio during the Council House Fight of March 1840, and later that year he led 200 men to join the army of the Republic of the Rio Grande. The Handbook of Texas places his death in 1845 at his home in Jackson County, though the plaque says Galveston.

What the plaque says

Captain William S. Fisher Born in Virginia. Captain of a company at San Jacinto, 1836 and in command of the Mier Expedition, 1842. Died in Galveston in 1845.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Moody Mansion — 1.0 mi
  A four-story, 28,000-square-foot house on Broadway, finished in 1895, that W. L. Moody Jr. bought just after the 1900 storm and his family kept until Hurricane Alicia in 1983.
• 1859 Ashton Villa — 1.2 mi
  A brick Italianate house on Broadway, built with enslaved labor in 1859, whose lawn has held Galveston's Juneteenth commemoration of General Orders, No. 3 every year since 1979.
• The Strand — 1.4 mi
  Five blocks of iron-front brick buildings near the harbor that were once called the Wall Street of the Southwest, emptied after 1900 and brought back by preservationists from the 1960s.
• Galveston Seawall and the 1900 Storm — 1.5 mi
  The concrete wall along the Gulf that Galveston built after the hurricane of September 8, 1900, which killed between 6,000 and 8,000 people in a city of 38,000.

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