The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862

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Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN: 9780876112557
Category : Gainesville (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862. The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862, combines two accounts of the events surrounding the executions along with an introduction by noted Civil War historian Richard B. McCaslin and an afterword by L.D. Clark, a descendent of one of the men hanged.