Men from this area served in Confederate and Federal Tennessee units during the Civil War, including the Confederate 4th (Branner's) Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, whose Company B became Company G of the 2nd (Ashby's) Regiment; the 3rd (Vaughan's) Tennessee Infantry Regiment, with Companies B, F, H, and 2nd K; the 39th (W.M. Bradford's) Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company K; the 59th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Companies B, E, and G; the 62nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Companies C, D, G, H, and K; and the Federal 9th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Company L; the 12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Company K; and the 3rd Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment, Companies C, D, G, and H.