Site of Camp Independence

The army's camps moved, and the sources do not agree on this one. The plaque names the site Camp Independence and puts Henry Teal's killing here on the night of May 5, 1837. The Handbook of Texas places Felix Huston's headquarters at Camp Johnson on the Lavaca, and Teal's murder at Camp Bowie, east of the Navidad at Red Bluff, about eight miles southeast of Edna. It says he was shot while asleep and that a man named Schultz later confessed at a Galveston trial. Sam Houston then furloughed about two-thirds of the army. The ground here is private.

What the plaque says

Site of Camp Independence A part of the first army of the Texas Republic, under the command of General Felix Huston, and later of General Albert Sidney Johnston, was stationed here from December, 1836, until furloughed by order of President Sam Houston on May 18, 1837. Captain Henry Teal was assassinated here as he slept in his tent on the night of May 5. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Half Moon Reef Lighthouse and Linnville — 20 mi
  The last screw-pile lighthouse of the Texas coast, brought ashore at Port Lavaca, a town founded by refugees from Linnville, the port Buffalo Hump's Comanches burned in August 1840.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 21 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• De León Plaza — 23 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.

More markers nearby

• Site of The Johnston-Huston Duel — 1.3 mi
• Edna Mexican School — 2.6 mi
• Hernandez v. State of Texas — 3.3 mi
• Jackson County — 3.3 mi