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Great Hanging at Gainesville
The Great Hanging at Gainesville was the execution by hanging of forty-one suspected Unionists in Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862 during the American Civil War. Two additional suspects were shot while trying to escape. Most were residents of Cooke county, but residents of neighboring counties were killed as well. It is alleged to be the largest mass hanging in the history of the United States.
==Background==
By 1860 only 10.9% of free Cooke county households owned slaves, and 61% of the county electorate voted against secession.〔''Tainted Breeze'' p. 15 & 34〕 In April 1862, the passage of conscription acts prompted thirty Cooke county men to sign a petition, objecting to the exemption of many large-scale slaveholders from the draft. They also formed a "Peace Party", whose members pledged to resist Confederate conscription. However, area slaveowners suspected that the group was colluding with pro-Union forces from out of state, and on the morning of October 1 state troops led by Colonel James G. Bourland began arresting suspected Unionists. 150 men were arrested in thirteen days.〔''Tainted Breeze'', p. 73〕
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