1862 News of the 'massacre of Union men' in Texas

The newspaper article below was printed in the Texas Republican newspaper on 1 November 1862, and then reprinted by newspapers around the country (and world) by the end of the year.  The Texas Republican newspaper was a southern newspaper and that was reflected in it's viewpoint.  The men hanged in Cooke County were referred to as "low characters, with here and there a man of limited influence."   And the paper implies justification of the hangings by saying "We must infer that thieving and robbing [by the Unionists] was at the bottom of the affair."  

Texas Republican

Marshall, Texas

1 Nov 1862
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By the end of the year (1862) the article was picked up by other newspapers around the country and world.  Depending upon political leaning of the newspaper, each article's viewpoint would change. 
Below are a few of articles found in Northern newspapers and one from London.  Since they all quote the same news article from the above Texas Republican, they basically say the same thing but in a different way.  Their Northern viewpoint talks about the "most fiendish cruelties and outrages perpetrated" upon the Union men and portrays the southern "rebels" who executed, or massacred, the men in Cooke County as committing "fearful work."

Muscatine Weekly Journal

Muscatine, Iowa

26 Dec 1862

Lancaster Examiner

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

24 Dec 1862

Daily News

London, England

26 Dec 1862

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The Texas Republican (the first newspaper shown) can be found on the Chronicling American website: click here.  It can also be found on Ancestry.com ($) and on The Portal to Texas History (free).  The quality of the newspaper image on all three sites is poor, but I could read it best on the Chronicling America website.
The other newspapers were found on Ancestry.com