DeKalb County, Tennessee, was deeply divided and affected by the US Civil War, 1860 - 1865. Already divided politically, the Civil War brought more division and strife, with 14 Companies raised for the Confederacy and 12 Companies raised for the Union.

This map project will revise and enhance, via local secondary sources (Webb, Thomas Gray. A Bicentennial History of DeKalb County, Tennessee. Smithville, TN: Bradley Printing Company, 1997), additional primary sources, and the Tennessee Civil War GIS Project sponsored by the Tennessee State Library and Archives:  https://tnmap.tn.gov/civilwar/  .