General Moseley Baker

In Alabama Baker founded and edited the Montgomery Advertiser and was speaker of the state House. He reached Liberty, Texas, in March 1835, and that summer was one of nine men Col. Domingo de Ugartechea ordered arrested at San Felipe. During Houston's retreat in 1836 Baker refused to leave the Brazos; his company guarded the ford at San Felipe and then burned the town to keep it from the enemy, an order Houston denied giving. In the First Congress he drew up impeachment charges against Houston. In 1841 he lost a congressional race by one vote.

What the plaque says

General Moseley Baker Commanded Co. D. First Regiment of Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto A member of 1st and 3rd Congresses of the Republic and later a Brigadier General of Militia Born in Virginia Sept. 20, 1802 Died in Houston, Texas Nov. 4, 1848 His wife Eliza Ward Baker died in Houston, Texas Feb. 4, 1849 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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