General Sidney Sherman

Sherman's last years in Galveston followed a run of losses. After he built the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado railroad, fires took his sawmill, his house and the railroad office. When the Civil War came he was keeping the Island City Hotel, and the secession convention named him commandant of Galveston, but illness soon sent him home. His son Lieutenant Sidney Sherman was killed in the Battle of Galveston, another son died after the family moved to Richmond, and his wife died in 1865. He died at his daughter's house in 1873.

What the plaque says

General Sidney Sherman [back] Born in Massachusetts July 23, 1805. Came to Texas February 1836 as captain of a company of volunteers he had recruited in Kentucky and Ohio. Commanded the Second Regiment of Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto. First to sound the immortal war cry opening the battle. Remember the Alamo. Remember Goliad. Member of the Congress of the Republic 1842-1843. Major General of the Militia 1843-1846. Commandant Port of Galveston C.S.A. 1861-1862. Father of railroads in Texas, having built the first one west of the Sabine River. Died in Galveston, Texas, on the first day of August 1873. [base] Erected by the State of Texas 1936 with funds appropriated by the federal government to commemorate one hundred years of Texas Independence

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 1892 Bishop's Palace — 0.5 mi
  Nicholas Clayton's stone house on Broadway for the railroad lawyer Walter Gresham, later home to Galveston's Catholic bishops and one of the most admired Victorian houses in the country.
• The Strand — 1.2 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.
• 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.
• Texas Seaport Museum and the Elissa — 1.2 mi
  An iron barque launched in Aberdeen in 1877 that called at Galveston twice, ended up smuggling in the Adriatic, and was bought back from a Greek scrapyard to sail again from Pier 22.

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• Galveston Seawall — 0.4 mi
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