Research Catalog

Title

The great hanging at Gainesville, 1862 : the accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond / Introduction by Richard B. McCaslin ; afterword by L.D. Clark.

Publication

Denton : Texas State Historical Association, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• McCaslin, Richard B.
• Schumacher, Ryan R.
• Acheson, Sam Hanna, 1900-1972.
• O'Connell, Julie Ann Hudson.
• Barrett, Thomas, 1809-1892.
• Diamond, George Washington, 1835-1911.

Description

vii, 174 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Great hanging at Gainesville.
• George Washington Diamond's account of the great hanging at Gainesville, 1862.

Subject

• Hanging > Gainvesville > History > 19th century
• Gainesville (Tex.) > History > 19th century
• Texas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865

Note

• Editor's note by Ryan R. Schumacher.
• Barrett's account originally published under the title: The great hanging at Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, October, A.D. 1862. Gainesville, Tex.: [s.n.], 1885 and republished in Austin, Tex. by the Texas State Historical Association, 1961. Diamond's account originally prepared in manuscript form ca. 1874-1876; first book publication: Account of the great hanging at Gainesville, 1862. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1963.

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• committed to retain

Contents

The great hanging at Gainesville / by Thomas Barrett -- George Washington Diamond's account of the great hanging at Gainesville, 1862 / edited by Sam Acheson and Julie Ann Hudson O'Connell.

ISBN

• 9780876112557
• 0876112556

LCCN

^^2012029621

OCLC

795009513

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library