Civil War Times In Eastland County

With three or four scattered settlements to its name, on the “border land of civilization,” news in 1861, of the approaching Civil War, did not travel fast in Eastland County.

According to the Mrs. George Langston history, “Recruiting agents went where some degree of success might attend their patriotic efforts, and it was not until 1864 that men in this section were called upon to bear arms.

Previously until about the 1st of February, 1864 Eastland had been attached to Palo Pinto, and prior to 1868 the counties of Eastland, Shackelford and Callahan were under the jurisdiction of Comanche County. After the Feb. 1 date, Eastland was organized under the Conscript Law for military purposes.