Walter Paye Lane

The Handbook of Texas follows Lane through his Marshall years. It says that after California and Arizona he opened a store here with his brother, Judge George Lane, and returned in 1858 to resume the mercantile business. Wounded at Mansfield on April 8, 1864, he had his brigadier general's rank confirmed in March 1865. Afterward he served as deputy federal marshal, helped found the Texas Veterans Association and was elected Harrison County treasurer in 1880. His memoir was published in Marshall in 1887, and he died here on January 28, 1892.

What the plaque says

Walter Paye Lane (Star and Wreath) Soldier in the Texas War for Independence. Major in the Mexican War. Brigadier general, C.S.A. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — steps away
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 0.4 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.7 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Marshall, C.S.A. — steps away
• Governor Edward Clark — steps away
• John T. Mills — steps away
• Marshall Cemetery — steps away