Site of the Camp

The 1936 stone marks the camp; the Mexican side of that week has its own record. Ramírez y Sesma had orders toward San Felipe and Anahuac, but the Texans at Beeson's Ford stopped him, and he camped about two miles from them. His men passed up every bait: Karnes's cavalry drew only artillery fire, and Sherman's ambush drew nothing at all. After Houston left, Mexican units reached Atascosito Crossing on March 27 and built rafts on the swollen river. Santa Anna arrived there on April 4 and crossed on the 6th; Filisola's division took three days, from the 10th.

What the plaque says

Site of the Camp March 20-26, 1836, of one division of General Santa Anna's army under the command of General Joaquín Ramírez y Sesma * It crossed the Colorado at Atascosita Ford, eight miles below Columbus Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Stafford Opera House — 1.2 mi
  A cattleman's bank and theater of 1886 on the Columbus square, in a river town Sam Houston burned in 1836 and a county marked by a long feud and a 1935 lynching.
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 16 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.
• Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge — 18 mi
  Ten thousand acres of native coastal prairie northeast of Eagle Lake, kept for a critically endangered grouse, many of whose birds are hatched in captivity and released here.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 19 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.

More markers nearby

• The Rev. Jacob Scherer — steps away
• Colonel Joseph Worthington Elliott Wallace — 0.4 mi
• Columbus' Old City Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Exum Philip Whitfield — 0.6 mi