Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas

Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas PDF Author: Frances Terry Ingmire
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Category : Hunt County (Tex.)
Languages : en
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Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas

Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas PDF Author: Frances Terry Ingmire
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Category : Hunt County (Tex.)
Languages : en
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Hunt County, Texas Archives and Pioneers, Volume 3

Hunt County, Texas Archives and Pioneers, Volume 3 PDF Author: Frances Ingmire
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ISBN: 9780788477850
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas

Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas PDF Author: Frances Terry Ingmire
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Category : Hunt County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Historic Hunt County

Historic Hunt County PDF Author: Milton Babb
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1935377167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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An illustrated history of Hunt County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.

Hunt County, Texas, 1847-1890

Hunt County, Texas, 1847-1890 PDF Author: Nicholas Russell Murray
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Category : Hunt County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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Murder and Mayhem

Murder and Mayhem PDF Author: James Smallwood
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people--civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other's supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.

Hunt County, Texas

Hunt County, Texas PDF Author: Milton Babb
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Category : Greenville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Hunt County, Texas

Hunt County, Texas PDF Author:
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Category : Hunt County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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A history of Hunt County

A history of Hunt County PDF Author: Ethel Cassles
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Category : Hunt County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Brush Men and Vigilantes

Brush Men and Vigilantes PDF Author: David Pickering
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585443956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger across the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, some men clung to a belief in the Union or an unwillingness to preserve the slaveholding Confederacy, and they died at the hands of their own neighbors. Brush Men and Vigilantes tells the story of how dissent, fear, and economics developed into mob violence in a corner of Texas--the Sulphur Forks river valley northeast of Dallas. Authors David Pickering and Judy Falls have combed through court records, newspapers, letters, and other primary sources and collected extended-family lore to relate the details of how vigilantes captured and killed more than a dozen men. The authors' story begins before the Civil War, as they describe the particular social and economic conditions that gave rise to tension and violence during the war. Unlike most other parts of Texas, the Sulphur Forks river valley had a significant population of Upper Southerners, some of whom spoke out against secession, objected to enlisting in the Confederate army, or associated with "Union men." For some of them, safety meant disappearing into the tangled brush thickets of the region. Routed from the thicket or gone to ground there, dissenters faced death. Betrayed by links to a well-known Union guerrilla from the Sulphur Forks area, more men of the area were captured, tried in mock courts, and hanged. Other men met their death by sniper fire or private execution, as in the case of brush man Frank Chamblee, who for years eluded his enemies by clever tricks but was finally gunned down after the war, reportedly by one of the area's most prominent men. Anyone with an interest in the new history of the Civil War or Texas should find much to digest in this compelling book, whose authors Richard B. McCaslin congratulates for taking their place "in the ranks of Texas' literary reconstructionists."