Brush Men and Vigilantes : Civil War Dissent in Texas,9780890969236

Brush Men and Vigilantes : Civil War Dissent in Texas

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ISBN13: 9780890969236
ISBN10: 089096923X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Summary

As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger throughout the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, some men who clung to a belief in the Union or an unwillingness to preserve the slaveholding Confederacy 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 have collected extended-family lore to relate the details of how vigilantes captured and killed more than a dozen men. Unlike most other parts of Texas, at the onset of the Civil War 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 these dissenters safety mean

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Series Editor's Foreword xi
Foreword xiii
Richard B. McCaslin
Preface xviii
Acknowledgments xxi
Where North Met South: The Sulphur Forks Watershed Counties of Northeast Texas
3(25)
The Hanging of the Hembys and Howards, 1862
28(40)
Hangings in Hunt and Hopkins Counties, 1863
68(34)
``Blessed with Peace!'': War's Bitter Aftermath
102(35)
Forgetting
137(8)
Notes 145(46)
Bibliography 191(12)
Index 203

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