Camp Salmon, later renamed Camp McCord, was established as part of a chain of frontier posts a day's horseback ride apart from Red River to Rio Grande and was occupied by the Texas Frontier Regiment. Named for Capt. John Salmon, a frontier Indian fighter and post commander, it helped guard the Texas frontier during the Civil War despite shortages of food, supplies, ammunition, and horses, trouble with Indians, and the loss of many lives. Texas made an all-out effort for the Confederacy after voting over 3 to 1 for secession, and ninety thousand troops, noted for mobility and heroic daring, fought on every battlefront. As an important source of supply and gateway to foreign trade through Mexico, Texas was the storehouse of the South. Camp Salmon and other posts on this line were backed by patrols of State Rangers, organized militia, and citizens' posses scouting from nearby family forts as part of a two thousand mile frontier and coastline successfully defended by Texans.