Moore, John Creed

John Creed Moore is remembered for Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg, but the Handbook of Texas follows him after the war. He returned to Texas and taught mathematics at Coronal Institute in 1869 and 1870, then served as superintendent of schools at Mexia and East Dallas and taught at Galveston, Kerrville, Osage and Coryell City. A West Point graduate of 1849, he had resigned his brigade command in February 1864 after a dispute with Gen. William Hardee and ended the war directing arsenals at Savannah and Selma. He died on December 31, 1910.

What the plaque says

Moore, John Creed Star and Wreath Brigadier General, C.S.A. Commended for outstanding gallantry at Shiloh, led brigade at Corinth and Vicksburg, fought at Chattanooga and Mobile. Erected by the State of Texas, 1963.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mother Neff State Park — 14 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Bosque Museum — 18 mi
  A Clifton museum holding what it calls the largest repository of Norwegian artifacts in the South and Southwest, with Bosque County finds some 10,000 years old and a log cabin built by the Olson family.
• Waco Mammoth National Monument — 24 mi
  A bone bed on the Bosque River where a nursery herd of at least 19 Columbian mammoths was trapped and drowned by floodwater 65,000 to 72,000 years ago, left in place under a dig shelter.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 26 mi
  The 1906 bottling plant of the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, built where Dr Pepper outgrew a Waco drugstore soda fountain, now the Dr Pepper Museum.

More markers nearby

• Osage Cemetery — steps away
• Canaan Baptist Church — 2.6 mi
• St. John Lutheran Church — 3.0 mi
• Prairie Chapel School — 3.3 mi