Camp Clark LbNA #68926
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Add Location| Owner: | Baby Bear  |
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| Plant date: | Jul 28, 2015 |
| Location: | Staples Cemetery |
| City: | Staples |
| County: | Guadalupe |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Silver Eagle |
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| Last found: | Sep 18, 2015 |
| Status: | FFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 22, 2015 |
Difficulty: Easy
Distance to Letterbox: 50 yards
**** Part of the Other Forts of Texas Series ******
Located in Staples Cemetery, which is just down the road from the historical Marker.
Named for Edward Clark, first Confederate Governor of Texas, whose Executive Order June 8, 1861, created voluntary camps of instruction such as this. Food, camp facilities and guns were voluntary gifts by local people. Farmers, merchants, artisans, laborers gave goods and services. Men with military training and experience gave their time as drillmasters.
This and 50 or 60 other camps of instruction mainly taught walking to Texans brought up with the habit of moving about on horseback. (6 out of 10 Texans joined the Cavalry. Governor Clark felt compelled to say in his Executive Order that infantry service was actually a matter of honor.)
Operated despite scorn of 18 to 35 year old recruits who had fought Indians most of their lives and were impatient for battle-- not for training.
Though neither Texas nor the Confederacy in 1861 had funds for camps of instruction, by 1862 privates were paid $11 a month, officers $50.
This Guadalupe County camp of instruction was convenient to roads and to water. Area units that trained here included Co. D, 4th Texas Infantry, of Hood's famous Texas Brigade, and 4th Texas Cavalry (Partisan) under Captain William P. Hardeman.
Directions:
Form Hwy 80 , go west on FM 1977, cross the river and soon turn right on Park Rd. Cemetery will be on left soon, park near gate (historical marker is further down the road in park).
To the Letterbox:
Enter through gate and walk down middle of cemetery to very back fence near "James & Millie Cooper's" Stone. Find tree by fence. Box is at back base of that tree under rock pile.
Distance to Letterbox: 50 yards
**** Part of the Other Forts of Texas Series ******
Located in Staples Cemetery, which is just down the road from the historical Marker.
Named for Edward Clark, first Confederate Governor of Texas, whose Executive Order June 8, 1861, created voluntary camps of instruction such as this. Food, camp facilities and guns were voluntary gifts by local people. Farmers, merchants, artisans, laborers gave goods and services. Men with military training and experience gave their time as drillmasters.
This and 50 or 60 other camps of instruction mainly taught walking to Texans brought up with the habit of moving about on horseback. (6 out of 10 Texans joined the Cavalry. Governor Clark felt compelled to say in his Executive Order that infantry service was actually a matter of honor.)
Operated despite scorn of 18 to 35 year old recruits who had fought Indians most of their lives and were impatient for battle-- not for training.
Though neither Texas nor the Confederacy in 1861 had funds for camps of instruction, by 1862 privates were paid $11 a month, officers $50.
This Guadalupe County camp of instruction was convenient to roads and to water. Area units that trained here included Co. D, 4th Texas Infantry, of Hood's famous Texas Brigade, and 4th Texas Cavalry (Partisan) under Captain William P. Hardeman.
Directions:
Form Hwy 80 , go west on FM 1977, cross the river and soon turn right on Park Rd. Cemetery will be on left soon, park near gate (historical marker is further down the road in park).
To the Letterbox:
Enter through gate and walk down middle of cemetery to very back fence near "James & Millie Cooper's" Stone. Find tree by fence. Box is at back base of that tree under rock pile.