Cherokee County C.S.A.

Cherokee County was a Civil War manufacturing, supply, and military center. Its Field Transportation Bureau shop made and repaired wagons, saddles, and harnesses; a gun factory produced Mississippi rifles and pistols; two iron works cast plows, skillets, pots, and irons; salt works provided a scarce item; and a Confederate commissary stored sugar and military supplies. The Texas conscript district office directed drafting activity. Additional military activity included the confinement of Union prisoners and two camps, one of them a camp of instruction for raw recruits. Two thousand men from Cherokee County were in Confederate service, including Brigadier General Joseph L. Hogg, who died in Mississippi in 1862. Companies organized there 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; and Cos. A, C, K, 18th Texas Infantry.

Rusk, Texas · United States