Civil War manufacturing, supply and military center. Field Transportation 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; Cos. F and I, 35th Texas Cavalry; Co. B, 28th Texas Cavalry; Dismounted Cos. A and D, Border's Cavalry; Co. K, 1st Texas Partisan Rangers; Co. E, 7th Texas Infantry; Cos. A, C, K 18th Texas Infantry.

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