Brush men & vigilantes
Subtitle: Civil War dissent in Texas
By: David Pickering and Judy Falls ; foreword by Richard B. McCaslin.
Contributors: Falls, Judy, 1947-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;; no. 1
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Sulphur River Watershed (Tex. and Ark.) -- History -- 19th century.; Vigilantes -- Sulphur River Watershed (Tex. and Ark.) -- History -- 19th century.; Violence -- Sulphur River Watershed (Tex. and Ark.) -- History -- 19th century.; Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.; Sulphur River Watershed (Tex. and Ark.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Sulphur River Watershed (Tex. and Ark.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Other titles: Brush men and vigilantes
Description: "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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-201) and index.