Painting completed in: 2011

This Live Oak is on the Northeast Corner of the LaGrange Courthouse Square. In 1842, Captain Nicholas Mosby Dawson, from LaGrange, recruited about 125 men under this tree before leaving to join Colonel Matthew Caldwell of the Texas Army to resist an invasion of Texas by Mexican General Adrian Woll. Before Dawson could join Caldwell, Dawson and 35 of his 53 man force, many from LaGrange were massacred by a Troop of Mexican Cavalry. Many Soldiers have departed from the shade of this tree to defend our rights in all of the other wars since the Texas Revolution.