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Eastside Promise Neighborhood in San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)
 

To The Unknown Dead

 
 
To The Unknown Dead Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By James Hulse, August 10, 2021
1. To The Unknown Dead Marker
Inscription. Of the Unknown Dead buried here in the Eighteen Hundreds, this monument honors 35 soldiers who died in service of their country during the Indian Wars and were recently identified through research at Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, San Angelo, Texas, 1992

Robert Babbitt - CPL CO L 10 CAV - 1852-1877
Jack Bentley - PVT CO K 24 INF - 1856-1880
Manuel Brown - PVT CO G 25 INF - 1854-1877
Thomas H Brown - PVT CO C 10 CAV - 1840-1875
Solomon Cleaver - PVT CO E 10 CAV - 1856-1880
Charles L Collum - PVT CO A 16 INF - 1862-1883
Patrick Cosgrove - PVT CO B16 INF - 1858-1884
Jacob Craig - PVT CO F 10 CAV - 1859-1883
James M Davis - PVT CO F 11 INF - 1850-1876
Dennis Doran - PVT CO C 16 INF - 1857-1885
Charles Douglas - PVT CO E 10 CAV - 1859-1884
Thomas Duncan - SGT CO K 25 INF - 1848-1874
William Jackson - PVT CO 10 CAV BAND - 1851-1876
William Johnson - PVT CO A 10 CAV - 1851-1878
Henry Jones - RCT 10 CAV BAND - 1853-1876
William Lang - 1SG CO B 16 INF - 1841-1884
Frank A Lisby - PVT CO A 10 CAV - 1854-1877
George B Lyman - PVT CO B 16 INF - 1859-1884
Thomas Mason - PVT CO A 10 CAV - 1845-1875
William H Matthew - PVT CO M 10 CAV - 1859-1882
Patrick Mcgrath - PVT 16 INF BAND - 1864-1885
Willis Merritt - PVT CO A 25
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INF - 1856-1880
James Needham - PVT CO D 10 CAV - 1849-1877
Patrick O'Hara - PVT CO H 16 INF - 1849-1884
Steven F Phillips - PVT 10 CAV BAND - 1852-1875
Benjamin Preston - PVT CO E 10 CAV - 1856-1881
Charles Preter - PVT CO G 10 CAV - 1852-1876
Samuel Robinson - BSM CO I 10 CAV - 1850-1875
Frank Ryan - PVT CO A 16 INF - 1860-1886
Solomon Smith - PVT CO G 24 INF - 1855-1880
Albert Stevens - PVT CO A 10 CAV - 1849-1875
Harrison Thomas - PVT CO I 10 CAV - 1847-1877
Caleb Windfield - PVT CO A 10 CAV - 1846-1874
Filmore Womack - PVT CO K 25 INF - 1854-1879
Abner Wooded - PVT CO E 10 CAV - 1856-1880

 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Wars, US Indian.
 
Location. 29° 25.304′ N, 98° 28.076′ W. Marker is in San Antonio, Texas, in Bexar County. It is in the Eastside Promise Neighborhood. Memorial can be reached from the intersection of Paso Hondo Street and Monumental. The marker is located at the far western section of the San Antonio National Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 517 Paso Hondo Street, San Antonio TX 78202, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. San Antonio National Cemetery (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); A National Cemetery System (about 400 feet away); Folded Flag Memorial
To The Unknown Dead Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By James Hulse, August 10, 2021
2. To The Unknown Dead Marker
(about 400 feet away); Captain Lee Hall (about 400 feet away); Gettysburg Address (about 400 feet away); Bivouac of the Dead (about 400 feet away); Charles Frederick King (about 500 feet away); Samuel S. Smith (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in San Antonio.
 
Also see . . .  Texas–Indian wars. Wikipedia
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement buffer in Texas between the Plains Indians and the rest of Mexico. As a consequence, conflict between Anglo-American settlers and Plains Indians occurred during the Texas colonial period as part of Mexico. The conflicts continued after Texas secured its independence from Mexico in 1836 and did not end until 30 years after Texas became a state of the United States, when in 1875 the last
The view of the To The Unknown Dead Marker from the cemetery image. Click for full size.
Photographed By James Hulse, August 10, 2021
3. The view of the To The Unknown Dead Marker from the cemetery
The marker is located at the back left side near the stone fence.
free band of Plains Indians, the Comanches led by Quahadi warrior Quanah Parker, surrendered and moved to the Fort Sill reservation in Oklahoma.
(Submitted on December 28, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.) 
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2023. It was originally submitted on December 27, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas. This page has been viewed 89 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on December 28, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.

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