The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862: The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond by Thomas Barrett, George Washington Diamond

The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862: The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond

Thomas Barrett, George Washington Diamond

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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. Civil War tensions had been running high. The Cooke County community located...

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