Jackson County, C.S.A.

In 1861, Jackson County voted for secession 147 to 77. With its beef and cotton, it helped supply the South. It furnished salt from beds near Cox's Creek, hides and tallow from a plant between Port Lavaca and Texana, and lead from the Navidad mine, now a lost mine. People at home molded bullets and sent them to fighting men, along with clothes woven, sewed, or knitted by the family. Couriers operated along a line that skirted the blockade coast from the mouth of Caney Creek to Brownsville. The home guard kept enemy ships off the shores, and a Confederate gunboat, chased from Lavaca Bay, sank in the Navidad.

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