At the close of the Civil War, Gen. Joseph O. Shelby's command refused to surrender. Shelby's men, the First Missouri Cavalry of the Confederate States of America, marched by way of Clarksville to Van Zandt County, proceeding through Grand Saline to Canton and on to Stone Point soon after learning of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender. From about April 22 to May 29, 1865, Shelby's troops camped at Stone Point while their leader attended a Confederate conference at Marshall, Texas. Determined to continue the war, the command then journeyed to Mexico, stopping where needed to enforce the peace in a ravaged postwar Texas.