General Zachary Taylor

The army that camped under this tree moved in pieces. Colonel Twiggs's dragoons and light artillery left Corpus Christi on March 8, 1846, and three infantry brigades followed at one-day intervals, so fewer than 3,000 men were strung out in four columns a day apart. Ulysses S. Grant, then a young lieutenant, later recalled a mustang herd that stretched as far as he could see and no settlements between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. Siege guns and convalescents went by water, and the nearest supply base was Point Isabel.

What the plaque says

General Zachary Taylor Under this tree General Zachary Taylor, commanding the Expeditionary Army of the United States sent to Texas in 1845, encamped on March 15, 1846, while en route with his troops from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kenedy Ranch Museum of South Texas — 6.1 mi
  A museum in the Kenedy Pasture Company's 1927 office in Sarita, telling how Mifflin Kenedy and three generations of his family shaped the Wild Horse Desert, with murals and an audio guide.
• Don Pedrito Jaramillo Shrine — 22 mi
  The grave and shrine of the folk healer of Los Olmos, a place of prayer where South Texans still leave candles and letters for the curandero who took no fee.
• Heritage Museum at Falfurrias — 23 mi
  A free town museum of ranch gear, a Texas Ranger room and 99,000 photo negatives, in the town Edward Lasater built around his railroad and his Jersey cows.

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