George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862 (Classic Reprint)

By George Washington Diamond

Excerpt from George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862

At the outbreak of the Civil War, George W. Diamond sold his interest in the newspaper at Henderson and joined Captain R. H. Cumby's Company B, 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment, as a private on May 7, 1861. He saw service in the initial phases of the war in Missouri under General Ben Mcculloch. On leave from his unit late in 1862, he visited his brother James J. Diamond in Cooke County shortly after the events described in this narrative. Garland Roscoe Farmer, The Realm of Rusk County (henderson, 50, 130.

Subsequently, George W. Diamond was transferred to the 11th Texas Cavalry, of which his brother James J. Diamond was colonel. In the spring of 1863 he raised a cavalry company on the lower Brazos River and served as a captain in Terrell's Texas Cavalry Regiment. He fought with this unit in the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, on April 8-9, 1864, in which Confederate forces turned back Major General Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River campaign, the last Union attempt to invade Texas.

Returning to Henderson at the end of hostilities, George W. Diamond was elected state representative from the district embracing Rusk County in the i1th Texas Legislature. Because of the military reconstruction of Texas, this body was not permitted to convene until 1870. Meanwhile, George W. Diamond moved with his family to Whitesboro, Grayson County, where he continued to make his home until his death on June 24, 1911. He practiced law in the county seat of Sherman during Reconstruction, held several public offices in the county, and was a member of the staff of the Whitesboro News.the purpose of preserving them and so disposing of them that the history of its transactions might be perpetuated and justice done to those who participated in its deliberations.

The writer, at the urgent solicitations of this committee, com piled the following memoranda from those records; and in obedi ence to the request of the Court, there expressed, they are now2 offered to the public as a just vindication of the conduct of those whose acts have been the subject of unjust criticism from one end of this broad land to the other.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1390916324
• ISBN13: 9781390916324
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"