Robertson

Felix Robertson's war included Saltville. On October 3, 1864, the Handbook of Texas says, troops under his command killed well over 100 wounded survivors of a Union attack the day before, mostly Black soldiers. Wikipedia notes that estimates of the dead vary. Robertson was never charged, but one of his subordinate officers was hanged for murder after the war, and Wikipedia names him as Champ Ferguson. Robertson later made Waco his home and, at his death in 1928, was the last surviving general of the Confederacy.

What the plaque says

Robertson The only father-son generals in the Civil War, except for Robert E. Lee and his son, are buried 1 block south. Gen. Jerome B. Robertson, Commander of Hood's Texas Brigade, Nov. 1862 to Jan. 1864, died in Waco Jan. 7, 1890. His son, Gen. Felix H. Robertson, Army of Tenn., died in Waco on April 20, 1928. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Armstrong Browning Library — 0.6 mi
  A three-story Italian Renaissance library on the Baylor campus built to hold A. J. Armstrong's Browning collection, dedicated in December 1951 and now, by its own account, the world's largest of Browning material.
• Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum — 1.3 mi
  The official state repository of Texas Ranger memorabilia, opened in 1968 in Fort Fisher Park on the Brazos, named for a Ranger post of 1837 whose site no one has located.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 1.5 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.
• Waco Suspension Bridge — 1.8 mi
  A Brazos crossing opened in January 1870 as the longest single-span suspension bridge west of the Mississippi, tolled until 1889, closed to vehicles in 1971 and now walked.

More markers nearby

• Oakwood Cemetery — steps away
• Dr. Rufus Columbus Burleson — steps away
• Canuteson, Ole — steps away
• Hallie Earle, M.D. — steps away