There are many Texas Confederates buried among the Confederate soldiers in the Camp Nelson Cemetery. They died during a measles and typhoid epidemic from November 1861 until March 1862. Many of the Texas soldiers who died during the epidemic were in Brig.Gen's. H.E. HcCulloch's Brigade, later to become part of Gen.John Walker's Division.

The Col. Matthew Locke's 10th Texas Cavalry (Ector's Brigade) also had many that died in the epidemic before the regiment was sent east of the Mississippi and are buried at Camp Nelson. My great great grandfather Samuel Wyatt was a approved sutler with the 10th Texas Cavalry and he died of measles in 1862 and is buried at Camp Nelson among the soldiers. Brig.Gen Allison Nelson raised the 10th Texas Infantry Regiment in central Texas and also died of typhoid fever in 1862. However, Brig.Gen. Nelson is buried in the Military Cemetery in Little Rock. After he died, the Confederate army changed the name from Camp McCulloch to Camp Nelson in his honor.

The Confederate army buried 428 Confederates who died of the epidemic in the woods with wooden markers. They buried them in the woods near the camp to keep up the moral of the soldiers. In 1898, the wooden markers were gone and the remains of the soldiers were relocated to the Camp Nelson Cemetery and reburied with a single granite monument.