Today in Texas History
September 18 - Texas History
This is today in Texas history. On this day, September the 18th in 1848, Sam Houston and other notable Texans gathered a mile south of LaGrange at Monument Hill, the chosen site for a military cemetery. Those to be buried there had died in the Dawson Massacre and other conflicts that beset the Republic of Texas as Mexico continued to contest the fact of Texas independence. Six years earlier, on September the 18th, 1842, Captain Nicholas Dawson and his 58 volunteers fought a losing battle against 500 Mexican cavalrymen and their two cannons, the Texans for schlock. A few escaped and 15 were carted off to prison, from where only nine survivors were eventually deleted. The dead were buried in shallow graves and in 1848 moved to Monument Hill. The day was again commemorated 91 years later when the daughters of the Republic of Texas dedicated a new vault at the site which had fallen into disrepair and abuse before they rescued it. I bet you didn't know that. That was today in Texas history. [MUSIC PLAYING]