Marker Inscription
In 1861, voted for secession 147 to 77. With its beef and cotton, helped supply South. Furnished salt from beds near Cox's Creek; hides and tallow from a plant between Port Lavaca and Texana; lead from Navidad mine (now a "lost mine"). Homefolk molded bullets and sent to fighting men, along with clothes woven, sewed or knitted by the family. Couriers operated along a line that skirted blockade coast from mouth of Caney Creek to Brownsville. Home guard kept enemy ships off the shores. A Confederate gunboat, chased from Lavaca Bay, sank in the Navidad.
About this site
Jackson County, C. S. A. is a historical marker in Edna, Jackson County, dedicated in 1965. It is one of 29 historical markers documented in Jackson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 48 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 28.9810, -96.6455 near Edna. The nearest cataloged historic site is Confederates of Jackson County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Jackson County, Early, Jackson County, and Macaroni Station.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5239002703. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
