Noted Texas Soldier Col. Edward Miles

Miles's family settled at Old River, at the head of Galveston Bay, after moving from Natchez in 1829. He took part in the Anahuac disturbances of 1832 and fought at San Jacinto under Capt. William Wood. In the Mexican War he enlisted in the United States Army and had charge of ammunition at the battle of Palo Alto. Through the Civil War he served as a clerk: to the secession commissioners at San Antonio, in the ordnance department, as chief clerk of the quartermaster's department in Arkansas, and receiving and shipping cotton on the Rio Grande.

What the plaque says

Noted Texas Soldier Col. Edward Miles (Feb. 8, 1816 - Apr. 1, 1889) Came to Texas 1829. Served in battles of Anahuac and San Jacinto in Texas War for Independence and the Indian, Mexican and Civil Wars. Born Natchez, Miss. Married Mary Ann Sawyer, 1850. Prominent in civic and public affairs. Recorded, 1964.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Alamo — 1.4 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 1.4 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• San Antonio River Walk — 1.5 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.
• King William Historic District — 1.8 mi
  Mission farmland turned German merchants' quarter on the San Antonio River, renamed in World War I, then saved by a neighbor who restored fourteen houses, starting with his own.

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