Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862,9780807122198

Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780807122198
ISBN10: 080712219X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five northern Texas counties and brought them to Gainesville. In the ensuing days, at least forty-four prisoners were hanged and several others were lynched in neighboring communities. In the first systematic treatment of this grisly climax to a heritage of violence and vigilantism in North Texas, Richard B. McCaslin provides a unique opportunity to study the tensions produced in southern society by the Civil War, the nature of disaffection in the Confederacy, and the American vigilante tradition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi(2)
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(8)
One The Foundations of Dissent
9(26)
Two Dissent Becomes Treason
35(25)
Three The Great Hanging Begins
60(24)
Four Reaping the Whirlwind
84(24)
Five Dark Corner of the Confederacy
108(43)
Six Promises Unfulfilled
151(30)
Epilogue 181(14)
Appendix A Forty-Two Executed by the Citizens Court at Gainesville 195(10)
Appendix B Members of the Citizens Court Jury at Gainesville 205(6)
Appendix C Other Participants at Gainesville 211(14)
Index 225

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