Joseph C. Robinson

Robinson's captivity outlasted the Dawson fight by a year and a half. The prisoners were marched to Perote Castle in Mexico, where men who had surrendered as prisoners of war were put to common labor, though they could write to friends, receive money and gifts, and buy supplies outside the walls. A Fayette County Historical Commission sketch dates his release to March 27, 1844. He returned to the Woods Prairie neighborhood west of La Grange and died in 1861, having already enlisted in a Confederate company called the Dixie Grays.

What the plaque says

Joseph C. Robinson Captured at the "Dawson Massacre" September 18, 1942. Died in 1861.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites — 11 mi
  A shared tomb on the Colorado River bluff for the men of the Dawson fight and the black bean lottery, beside the ruins of a German stonemason's spring-fed brewery.
• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 12 mi
  A museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 16 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 18 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.

More markers nearby

• Site of Wood's Fort — 0.6 mi
• St. Peter Lutheran Church and Prairie Valley Cemetery — 3.5 mi
• Winchester Cemetery — 5.1 mi
• Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 5.2 mi