Sevier County in the Civil War

In 1860 Sevier County counted 7,150 white residents and 3,366 enslaved people, about a third of everyone living there. Both of its delegates to the 1861 secession convention either owned enslaved people or came from families that did. No battle was fought in the county, but its government kept receiving appeals for help from families whose fathers and sons were in the army. The lead and iron pyrite that served the Confederacy did not grow into an industry: when miners tried antimony, copper, lead and zinc in the early twentieth century, none of the attempts produced a boom.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Millwood State Park — 21 mi
  A park at the foot of the 3.3-mile Millwood Dam, built in 1966 on the Little River, where flooded timber makes serious bass fishing and the lake counts as a bird-conservation area.

More markers nearby

• Sevier County Seat of Justice — 12 mi
• Center Point — 14 mi
• Howard County in the Civil War — 14 mi
• Little River County Seat — 18 mi