Women in Civil War Texas:
Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi
Editors: Deborah M Liles and Angela Boswell
Chapter 9 by Rebecca Sharpless is titled; "'In Favor of Our
Fathers' Country and Government' Unionist Women in North Texas."
Some of the wives/widows of the Gainesville Hanging victims are
included in Chapter 9.
On page 220, Sharpless writes the following comment about Susan
Leffel's Letter to Governor Edmund J. Davis of Texas in 1869:
"Leffel neatly summarizes the plight of Unionist women in North
Texas: kept from direct political action themselves, they nonetheless viewed
the United States as the land of their ancestors, and they defended it
passionately with the only tools available to them as women: words and care for
their loved ones. While many of their
men paid for their loyalty with their lives, the women remained behind and paid
throughout their lives instead."
To see the list of the wives
of the Gainesville Hanging Victims, click here
Posts about the harsh treatment of the wives/widows/children/family
members of the victims of the Great Hanging:
