Texas Historical Marker

Colonel John S. Sutton

Sonora · Sutton County · placed 1962

Civil War

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Sutton County, Texas

The story

At outbreak Civil War, this veteran soldier, Ranger, Indian fighter joined 7th Regiment Texas Mounted Volunteers. Elected lt. colonel, led five companies Arizona-New Mexico campaign designed to make Confederacy an ocean to ocean nation. Mortally wounded in Battle of Val Verde while leading rifle assault against enemy cannons, he refused immediate aid and motioned on his battalion which captured the battery.

A memorial to Texans who served the Confederacy.

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