sentences:  The Union Army occupied Mooresville several times during the Civil War, and a few skirmishes were fought in the vicinity.Future U.S. president James Garfield, then a Union general camped in the area, delivered a sermon at the Mooresville Church of Christ in 1863.Mooresville thrived as a cotton farming hub until the early 20th century, when the boll weevil infestation wrecked the cotton economy.