Map of La Grange showing Camp Street and the road that connected the Confederate prison camp on the Colorado River and the Campground Spring pool on Cedar Creek during the Civil War era.
The History of Camp Street in La Grange – Part 2 By Carolyn Heinsohn
In August 1860, Gov. Sam Houston commissioned William G. Webb, veteran of the Mexican War, legislator and an attorney in La Grange, as a Brigadier General with orders to organize the 22nd Brigade of the Militia of the State of Texas, comprising the counties of Fayette, Colorado, Wharton and Matagorda. There were four battali…
