Historical Marker

Cherokee County C.S.A.

Historical marker location:

Rusk, Texas

( Courthouse Square, corner of 6th and Main)

Civil War manufacturing, supply and military center. Field Transportation Bureau shop made and repaired wagons, saddles, harnesses. Gun factory produced "Mississippi rifles" and pistols. Two iron works cast plows, skillets, pots, irons. Salt works provided a scarce item. Confederate commissary stored sugar and military supplies. Texas conscript district office directed drafting activity. Additional military activities included Union prisoner confine and two camps, one a camp of instruction for raw recruits.

C.S.A. Men and Units

Two thousand men from Cherokee County were in the Confederate Service, including Brigadier General Joseph L. Hogg who died in Mississippi in 1862.

Companies organized 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

Cos. A, C,K 18th Texas Infantry.