Jasper County was a communication, transportation, supply, and military center in Civil War Texas. It voted 315 to 25 in favor of secession. Texas troops crossed the county during the 1862-64 Louisiana campaigns to prevent a split of the South and an invasion of Texas. The Confederate Army ran a Houston-to-Alexandria, Louisiana, military horseback courier route through the county, and in the last years of the war Abel Adams, a local 14-year-old, rode it at a high lope for Gen. John B. Magruder, commander of the Department of Texas. Beef was driven to troops in the Old South by way of an 1823 trail across the county. Jasper County also had a Confederate Quartermaster Depot and the 9-county headquarters of the 2nd Brigade, Texas State Troops, under local citizen Gen. W. M. Neyland. County men served on various war fronts of the South in Co. G, 13th Texas Cavalry; Co. C, 25th Texas Cavalry, Dismounted; and Co. E, 27th Texas Cavalry, in Whitfield's Legion. In 1865, as survivors were returning home, Union occupation troops under Gen. George Custer bivouacked in the Jasper Town Square, and his young bride, driving her beautiful horse and carriage, called on the Jasper ladies.