Historical Marker
Confederates of Jackson County
Edna, Jackson County · Texas
Erected 1965
Clark L. Owen, the plaque's captain killed at Shiloh, had opposed secession. A Kentucky merchant born in 1808, he came to fight in the Texas Revolution in 1836, fought at Plum Creek in 1840, and declined to be Sam Houston's secretary of the treasury. Houston instead made him a colonel to patrol the raided country around Corpus Christi, with discretion to proclaim martial law; he restored order without it. He married Laura Wells, farmed near Texana and sat in the Senate of the Sixth Congress. On April 6, 1862, he fell leading Company I of the Second Texas Infantry.
What the plaque says
Confederates of Jackson County From 1860 population of 2612 came more than 100 Civil War soldiers, one an infantryman on a crutch: M. K. Simons, a Mexican war amputee, brigade quartermaster, 2nd Texas infantry, C. S. A. Officers included Capt. C. L. Owen, veteran of the Texas Revolution and Mexican war; killed at Shiloh in 1862. Composed chiefly of Jackson County men were Co. D, 1st Texas Cavalry; Co. K, 2nd Texas Infantry; and Co. M, 27th Texas Cavalry (Whitfield's Legion). Jackson men were also in other units, including Confederate marines and Terry's Texas Rangers, and saw much of war's greatest action. (1965)
Where it stands
28.97807, -96.64702 · Directions
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