Montgomery County, C. S. A.
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N 30° 23.498 W 095° 41.788
15R E 240911 N 3365268
Located in front of the old county jail, near where the courthouse once stood.
Waymark Code: WMAKG0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/25/2011
Views: 14
Texas State Historical Survey marker
From the Atlas:
Index Entry: Montgomery County, C.S.A.
Address: SH 149 in front of Community Building
City: Montgomery
County: Montgomery
Subject Codes: counties
Year Marker Erected: 1965
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 7890
Marker Text:
A wealthy farm area in 1861. In Civil War, supported Texas with goods, funds and men. 2 companies from here were in famed Hood's Texas Brigade; one company had only 9 men living by 1865. Young boys, old men and the partially disabled formed 5 home guard and state companies. The county clothed its own soldiers. The Courthouse, then on this site, had a sewing room for that work. Cooperating were homefolk using looms and cotton cards.
People ate sparingly, had few new clothes. By 1864, so much was given to war effort that not a store was open in Montgomery.
(1965)
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