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Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
Tainted Breeze The Great Hanging at Gainesville Texas 1862
Author: Richard B. McCaslin
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 communi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807122198
ISBN-10: 080712219X
Publication Date: 8/1/1997
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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