Foreword / Richard B. McCaslin -- 1. Where North Met South: The Sulphur Forks Watershed Counties of Northeast Texas -- 2. The Hanging of the Hembys and Howards, 1862 -- 3. Hangings in Hunt and Hopkins Counties, 1863 -- 4. "Blessed with Peace!": War's Bitter Aftermath -- 5. Forgetting
Summary
"As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger across the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, some men clung to a belief in the Union or to an unwillingness to preserve the slaveholding Confederacy, and they 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."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-201) and index
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