Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark. including previously unpublished material of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas in October, 1862.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Not all Texans agreed with the decision to secede from the Union in 1860, and many remained outspoken against the laws of the Confederacy. This is the story of one Texas family who suffered more at the hands of their own kind than of any warring enemy, told through the memoirs of James Lemuel Clark, the son of one of the 40 men hanged in 1862 for their Union sympathies. This Civil War Recollection recounts the confusion of the Civil War years and events that shaped the lives of war survivors and influenced the reconstruction of Texas. Item #29021
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