Site of Camp Sabinal

By the summer of 1856 the Second United States Cavalry, commanded by Col. Albert Sidney Johnston from Fort Mason, was the only mounted unit left in Texas. Johnston spread his companies among outposts along the frontier, and Company I was sent to this camp on the west bank of the Sabinal River. John Kenedy built a store near the post. Remnants of the settlers' buildings still stood when the Centennial Commission placed this marker in 1936. In late 1857, and again near the end of 1860, the regiment and Company I served under Robert E. Lee.

What the plaque says

Site of Camp Sabinal Established July 12, 1856 by Capt. Albert G. Brackett, Second U. S. Cavalry as a protection to the San Antonio - El Paso Road and frontier settlers. Occupied by Federal troops until November 1856, later served as a Ranger camp.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Inge Historical Site — 19 mi
  A county park on the Leona River below a 140-foot volcanic plug, where an army post guarded the new road to El Paso from 1849 to 1869 and Texas Rangers camped after.
• Uvalde Grand Opera House — 20 mi
  An 1891 Victorian opera house on the Uvalde square with a turret and a dragon weathervane, once owned by John Nance Garner and still staging volunteer theater upstairs.
• Briscoe-Garner Museum — 20 mi
  The Uvalde house of John Nance Garner, the vice president who made the office a power in Congress, now a free museum to him and to Governor Dolph Briscoe.
• Garner State Park — 25 mi
  The Frio River park that Uvalde County built with the Civilian Conservation Corps and named for its own vice president, where people have danced on the stone pavilion every summer since the 1940s.

More markers nearby

• Sabinal Methodist Church — 0.9 mi
• First Baptist Church, Sabinal — 1.0 mi
• John M. Davenport — 1.4 mi
• Sabinal — 1.4 mi