Named after its original owner, José Justo Liendo, the plantation was purchased in 1873 by sculptor Elisabet Ney and her husband, physician Edmund Montgomery.

Camp Hebert was established on the eastern bank of Clear Creek and south of Washington Road.

Numerous Confederate infantry regiments were organized, trained, and equipped at Camps Groce and Hebert.

Many were taken to the Post Hospital in the Planter's Exchange Hotel located at the southwest corner of 12th and Wilkins Streets in downtown Hempstead.

The Confederacy also sent US prisoners of war taken at the Battle of Sabine Pass II (September 8, 1863) to Camp Groce.

In May 1864, the Confederacy re-opened Camp Groce to imprison 148 U.S. Army prisoners of war captured at the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana.

Still, numerous US Navy POWs were buried there, along with multiple Confederate soldiers who died in the hospitals in downtown Hempstead.

Also, the Washington County Historical Commission has placed a Texas State Historical Marker, "Camp Felder", on the west side of FM 1155 north of Chappell Hill, Texas, to commemorate Camp Felder CSA.

About 8,000 Confederate soldiers from Walker's Division (commanded by Maj. Gen. John H. Forney) were ordered to Hempstead from Louisiana in March 1865.

The division camped in and around Liendo Plantation for about two months before moving to Austin or was mustered out of the service at Hempstead in 1865–66.

Company K of the 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry occupied the town and guarded the railroad line until the regiment was mustered out in May 1866.

Their mission was to parole former Confederate troops, collect CS property, and establish law and order.

In the Fall of 1867, a yellow fever epidemic devastated the civilian population of Hempstead, and nearly 40 soldiers of the 17th US Infantry died as well.