Site of The Johnston-Huston Duel

A choice by Sam Houston set up this duel. Felix Huston, a Mississippi planter, had led the army since October 1836, and it wintered in Jackson County. When Houston named Albert Sidney Johnston senior brigadier general, on January 31, 1837 by the Handbook's count, Huston held that his honor required a challenge, and he shot Johnston through the right hip. The Handbook dates the duel February 7 and the plaque February 5. Johnston could not take command at once, left Texas on May 7, and was named secretary of war in December 1838. The ground is private.

What the plaque says

Site of The Johnston-Huston Duel On this spot General Albert Sidney Johnston and General Felix Huston fought a duel February 5, 1837. General Johnston was seriously wounded. While commanding the Confederate army at the battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862, he was killed. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Half Moon Reef Lighthouse and Linnville — 19 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 — 20 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 — 22 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 Camp Independence — 1.3 mi
• Edna Mexican School — 3.7 mi
• Hernandez v. State of Texas — 4.5 mi
• Jackson County — 4.6 mi