Details for Cooke County, C.S.A./2nd Frontier Regiment

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5097001054

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Marker Number 1054
Atlas Number 5097001054
Marker Title Cooke County, C.S.A./2nd Frontier Regiment
Index Entry Cooke County C.S.A. (2nd Frontier Regiment)
Address 1519 W. California
City Gainesville
County Cooke
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 671199
UTM Northing 3722054
Subject Codes counties; Civil War
Marker Year 1963
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location Moffett Park, north side of W. California Street, across from Leonard Park entrance
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size Civil War Centennial marker (pink granite)
Marker Text Military, defense center in Civil War. Cooke voted 231 to 137 anti-secession, yet nine military units served Confederacy from here. In constant danger of Federal or Indian attack. Col. Wm. C. Young of Cooke, with 1,000 men took Indian Territory forts from Federals April-May 1861. Commissioners set up regular patrols. Forted a home as refuge for dependents. Gave $4,000 for munitions and wool cards to make cloth. Cotton gin, grist mill, gunsmiths, blacksmiths made war goods. C.S.A. was furnished epsom salts from Indian creek. Corn, beef, pork, wheat, other produce fed the military, home front. County swapped 25 steers for salt for dependent families. People worked hard, sacrificed much, protected homes of fighting men of Confederacy. (Back of Cooke County, C.S.A.) Organized Oct. 1863 with Gainesville as headquarters, the Second Frontier Regiment, Texas Cavalry C.S.A. guarded counties along Red River, to keep down outlaws, Indians, deserters. Col. James Bourland (1803-1868) was appointed Commander and it became known as "Bourland's Border Regiment." Union invasion from north of Red River was constantly threatened. These mounted troops patrolled, maintained posts along river and in Indian Territory. Confederate Seminole troops served with the unit. Famous Confederate Indian Gen. Stand Watie and his Cherokee Brigade shared duty along perilous border. Bourland also worked with Frontier Regiment, state troops, that maintained line posts 100 mi. west, a day's horseback ride apart, from Red to Rio Grande rivers, and with a state militia line 30 mi. to the west. Erected by The State of Texas 1963.

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