Historical Marker
Robert Hancock Hunter
Fayette County · Texas
Erected 1962
Hunter wrote one of the classic accounts of the revolution. In 1860, at Victoria, he turned his diary into a reminiscence, published in 1936 as the Narrative of Robert Hancock Hunter; Carlos Castañeda called it the best account of the San Jacinto campaign left by a veteran. His own part in the battle was limited. Armed only with an old jaeger rifle whose lock, he wrote, was tied on with a buckskin string, he was detached to guard the baggage at Harrisburg, and afterward he helped guard Santa Anna. He settled near Flatonia in 1880.
What the plaque says
Robert Hancock Hunter Star and Wreath Fought for Texas Independence at Gonzales, Siege of Bexar and San Jacinto. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962
Where it stands
29.69483, -97.11000 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Flatonia — 0.5 mi
- Muldoon Community — 8.7 mi
- Creuzbaur's Battery, C.S.A. "The Big Guns of Fayette" — 11 mi
- Leander C. Cunningham — 11 mi