In 1861, Cageville was a small hamlet at an important West Tennessee crossroads whose residents, along with those of nearby Bells, largely supported the Confederacy. In April 1861, 170 volunteers formed what would become Co. G, 27th Tennessee Infantry, and the regiment fought with the Army of Tennessee for the next four years, suffering heavy casualties at Shiloh and Stones River; only three of the original volunteers survived the war. Some local men who remained at home became partisans who harassed Union troops. On July 18, 1863, the Unionist Memphis Bulletin reported that a considerable force of Confederate cavalry under Colonel Jesse Forest had been troubling citizens in Madison, Henderson, and Haywood counties, and that Colonel Edward Hatch sent part of his force on a detour near Cageville, where a Confederate force had recently been committing depredations. By September, Unionist home guards were patrolling the area in search of several small bands, and they captured three Confederates near Cageville: Sam Grey, Alexander Waylor, and B.L. Bagby. The war's end in 1865 concluded the hostilities, though not the hard feelings, and Crockett County was created in 1871 from parts of Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, and Madison counties, with the courthouse completed in 1874.