Title: Brush men & 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."
Subjects: Violence, Vigilantes, Social aspects, Texas Civil War, 1861-1865, Economic conditions, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Social conditions, Unionists (United States Civil War), History
Places: Sulphur River Watershed (Tex. and Ark.), Texas, United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865