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The Great Hanging Burial Site

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Location : Gainesville, Cooke County, USA
Coordinate : 33.6238240, -97.1383220
Description : Forty suspected Unionists in Confederate Texas were hanged at Gainesville in October 1862. Two others were shot as they tried to escape. Although the affair reached its climax in Cooke County, men were killed in neighboring Grayson, Wise, and Denton counties. Most were accused of treason or insurrection, but evidently few had actually conspired against the Confederacy, and many were innocent of the abolitionist sentiments for which they were tried. After the men were hanged, their bodies were thrown into an empty warehouse building on the west side of the town square. A few (as little as five)of the families claimed... Read More

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    Latitude: 33.6238240
    Longitude: -97.1383220

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