C.S.A. Men and Units Two thousand men from Cherokee County were in the Confederate Service, including Brigadier General Joseph L. Hogg who died in Mississippi in 1862. Companies organized were: Co. A, 2nd Texas Cavalry Co. C, 3rd Texas Cavalry Co. K, 4th Texas Cavalry Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Co. I, 10th Texas Cavalry Co. B, 17th Texas Cavalry Co. F and I, 35th Texas Cavalry Co. B, 28th Texas Cavalry Dismounted Co. A and D Border's Cavalry Co. K, 1st Texas Partisan Rangers Co. E, 7th Texas Infantry Co. A, C and K, 18th Texas Infantry |
Civil War manufacturing, supply and military center. Field Transprotation Bureau shop made and repaired wagons, saddles, harnesses. Gun factory produced "Mississippi rifles" and pistols. Two iron works cast plows, skillets, pots, irons. Salt works provided a scarce item. Confederate commissary stored sugar and military supplies. Texas conscript district office directed drafting activity. Additional military activities included Union prisoner confine and two camps, one a camp of instruction for raw recruits. |
Cherokee County C.S.A. |
Located on the Courthouse Square, on the corner of 6th and Main. |
Civil War manufacturing, supply and military center. Field Transprotation Bureau shop made and repaired wagons, saddles, harnesses. Gun factory produced "Mississippi rifles" and pistols. Two iron works cast plows, skillets, pots, irons. Salt works provided a scarce item. Confederate commissary stored sugar and military supplies. Texas conscript district office directed drafting activity. Additional military activities included Union prisoner confine and two camps, one a camp of instruction for raw recruits. |
C.S.A. Men and Units Two thousand men from Cherokee County were in the Confederate Service, including Brigadier General Joseph L. Hogg who died in Mississippi in 1862. Companies organized were: Co. A, 2nd Texas Cavalry Co. C, 3rd Texas Cavalry Co. K, 4th Texas Cavalry Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Co. I, 10th Texas Cavalry Co. B, 17th Texas Cavalry Co. F and I, 35th Texas Cavalry Co. B, 28th Texas Cavalry Dismounted Co. A and D Border's Cavalry Co. K, 1st Texas Partisan Rangers Co. E, 7th Texas Infantry Co. A, C and K, 18th Texas Infantry |
