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Texana - The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862

$17
Laguna Park, TX

George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862. Sam Acheson and Julia Ann Hudson O'Connell Acheson (editors). Austin: Texas State Historical Association, © 1963. Softcover. 10 x 7”. First edition, xv, 103 pages, frontis portrait, index.
Good condition, tight, clean, and unmarked. There are some indentations to the front covers and lightest soiling and a crease to the upper corner of the rear cover. The covers are protected in plastic.
A Unionist “Peace Party Plot” aimed at revolt against the Confederate government in Texas was discovered in September, 1862, in the North Texas area including Cooke, Grayson, Wise, Denton, and Collin counties. Forty suspected Unionists in Confederate Texas were hanged at Gainesville in October 1862. They were accused treason/insurrection, but it appears few had actually conspired against the Confederacy. Tensions had been building for years. Cooke and the surrounding counties had voted against secession. Rumors of Unionist alliances with Kansas Jayhawkers and Indians along the Red River brought emotions to a fever pitch. Fearing that stories of Unionist plots to storm the militia arsenals at Gainesville and Sherman might be true, Confederate authorities activated state troops in North Texas in late September 1862 and ordered the arrest of all able-bodied men who did not report for duty.
Some 150 men were arrested. A trial was held in October 1st. The decision to convict on a majority vote meant things looked bad for the accused. The jury condemned seven influential Unionists, but a mob took matters into its own hands and lynched fourteen more. Two Southern sympathizers were killed the following week and those men who were scheduled for release were retried. Nineteen more men were convicted and hanged. The Union League was unable to exact revenge; many members fled along with the families of the slain prisoners, leaving bodies unclaimed for burial in a mass grave. After the war there was only one man in Denton convicted for his part in the hanging. Years were to pass before the simmering resentment of Unionists in North Texas subsided.
George Washington Diamond was a newspaper editor and publisher in Henderson and had joined the Confederate Army. He was asked to write a full account of the plot and the trials of conspirators.
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