He moved to Texas in July of 1836 and enlisted in [The Republic Army]?. One month later he was appointed to the position of [Adjutant General]? and in January of 1837, he became Senior [Brigadier General]? in Command of [the Republic Army]?. The Second [President of the Republic of Texas]? [Mirabeau B. Lamar]? appointed him [Secretary of War]? in December of 1838. In 1840, he returned to Kentucky and married [Eliza Griffin]? in 1843. They settled in [China Grove, TX]? on his large plantation? and lived there until 1849.
During the [Mexican War]?, he commanded a company of [Texas Volunteers]?. Later as a Colonel? in the United States Army, he served on the Texas frontier and in the West. At the outbreak of [the Civil War]?, he resigned from the US Army and was appointed a [Confederate General]? by [President of the Confederate States of America]? Jefferson Davis.
He was killed at the [Battle of Shiloh]? in 1862 and was buried in [New Orleans, LA]?. In 1866, a joint resolution of the [Texas Legislature]? was passed to have his body reinterred to the state cemetery? in Austin (the re-interment occurred in 1867). Four decades later, the state appointed [Elisbet Ney]? to design a monument and sculpture of him to be erected at his gravesite.
He is considered a [Texas Patriot]? and a [Confederate Hero]?.
The [Texas Historical Commission]? has erected a [historical marker]? near the entrance of what was once his plantation?. An adjacent marker was erected by the San Jacinto Chapter of the [Daughters of The Republic of Texas]? and the Lee, Roberts, and Davis Chapter of the [United Daughters of the Confederate States of America]?.
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