Texas Monument

At Mansfield, John Walker sent William Scurry's brigade forward on the right, and in Richard Taylor's account it swept the Union line before it. Scurry was born in Gallatin, Tennessee, in 1821, moved to Texas in 1839, practiced law, edited the Austin State Gazette and sat in the Republic's congress. He fought at Valverde, commanded at Glorieta Pass in March 1862 and helped retake Galveston. Scurry was killed at Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864, aged forty-three, and lies in the State Cemetery in Austin; Scurry County bears his name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — steps away
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 30 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Monument (Battle of Mansfield) — steps away
• Capt. Elijah Parsons Petty — steps away
• James H. Beard Monument — steps away
• General Dick Taylor Monument — steps away