Historical Marker
Within A Few Minutes, Battle of San Jacinto Site
Houston, Harris County · Texas
Erected 1936
The tablet tallies nine Texans killed; Kemp and Kilman's 1947 history of the battle says where they lie. Eight were buried on the ground where the army had camped on April 20, under board markers. When Judge J. L. Sullivan of Richmond began a public subscription in 1879 for a joint monument, only Benjamin R. Brigham's grave could still be recognized. The square spire of Rutland marble went up over it after an unveiling at Galveston on August 25, 1881, with Temple Houston, Sam Houston's youngest son, as orator. Nine stars cut near its top stand for the dead.
What the plaque says
Within A Few Minutes, Battle of San Jacinto Site Within a few minutes the Battle of San Jacinto was over. According to General Houston's report 630 Mexicans lay dead on the field, 208 were wounded and 730 were taken prisoners. Money, arms and equipment were captured. The Texans had 9 killed and 30 wounded.
Where it stands
29.74021, -95.08982 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 0.9 miThe 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 — 13 miThe 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 miThe 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 miTen 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.