Camp Myers, established early in 1861 in Overton County alongside nearby Camp Zollicoffer and named for Mexican War veteran Calvin Myers, became after Tennessee seceded in June 1861 a Confederate training camp and permanent military post for locally recruited men, helping secure the border against Federal raids from Kentucky and suppress Unionist activity in Overton and Fentress counties. Troops from the camp fought several skirmishes with Unionist home guards and guerrillas, and Sgt. Fayette McDowell wrote his family of the many activities in a typical camp day, saying, “You know I am busy. But I stand it very well. I suffer for sleep sometimes.” Gov. Isham G. Harris appointed Col. Stokely H. Huddleston of Livingston as a recruiter there, and Col. Sidney S. Stanton also raised and trained troops at the camp, recruiting several companies for the 25th Tennessee Infantry, which he led until he was mortally wounded during the Atlanta campaign in 1864. The regiment fought at Fishing Creek, in northern Mississippi during the Shiloh campaign, and at Perryville, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga; in 1864 it was transferred east to Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and ended the war in Virginia, surrendering at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Col. John M. Hughs, also of the 25th Tennessee Infantry, operated behind Union lines during the winter of 1863-1864 and led a 300-man Confederate guerrilla unit from here into Kentucky to raid Federal installations.