Texas Army Attacked in Four Divisions

Millard, born in Stillwater, New York, probably in 1796, was a druggist in Natchez and New Orleans before coming to Texas in August 1835, and his partnership laid out Beaumont, named for his late wife. At San Jacinto he led two companies of regular infantry and a battalion of volunteers to take the Mexican breastwork, and Houston gave him two dueling pistols that had belonged to Santa Anna. That summer he was caught up in an army plot to arrest Acting President David G. Burnet, who had him suspended from the army. He died at Galveston in 1844.

What the plaque says

Texas Army Attacked in Four Divisions - The Cavalry on the right, commanded by Mirabeau B. Lamar; next, the Infantry under Lieutenant Colonel Henry Millard and the "Twin Sisters" cannon under Colonel George W. Hockley; the 1st Regiment in the center under Colonel Edward Burleson; the 2nd Regiment, the left wing, under Colonel Sidney Sherman.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 2.5 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 11 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 17 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.

More markers nearby

• Battle of San Jacinto — steps away
• Home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick — 1.2 mi
• Site of the Home in 1836 of Dr. George Moffit Patrick — 2.3 mi
• Deer Park — 2.3 mi