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| Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging |
"George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862," edited by Sam Acheson and Julie Ann Hudson O'Connell, can be accessed here on the The Portal to Texas History website. This account was published by the Texas State Historical Association in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 66, July 1962 - April, 1963.
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This list is the order of each man’s trial as presented in Diamond’s Account of the Citizens Court, with the date of hanging listed after each name. (Most hanging dates came from McCaslin's book, Tainted Breeze.)
Dr. Henry Childs – Oct 2
Ephraim Childs – Oct 2
A.D. Scott - Oct 19
M.D. Harper – Oct 4
Henry Fields – Oct 4
I.W.P. Lock – Oct 7
W.W. Morris – Oct 8
Richard Anderson - Oct 19
Dr. Eli Thomas – Oct 19
TRIED TOGETHER:
Edward Hampton - Oct 10
John A. Morris – Oct 19
John M. Crisp – Oct 19
Samuel Carmichael – Oct 13
TRIED TOGETHER - Oct 13
C.A. Jones, James Powers, Eli M. Scott, Thomas Baker, Geo W. Anderson, Abraham McNeese, Henry Cockrum, C.F. Anderson, Wm Wernell, B.F. Barnes, Wm Rodes, & N.M. Clark
Ramey Dye – Oct 13
D.M. Leffel – Oct 19
TRIED TOGETHER – Oct 19
James A. Ward & W.B. Taylor
H.J. Esman – Oct 19
W.W. Johnson – Oct 19
Richard N. Martin – Oct 19
Barnabas Birch – Oct 19
TRIED TOGETHER – Oct 19
Curd Goss, Wm Anderson, John Miller, Ar (Phax) Dawson, & M.W. Morris
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SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE:
Dr. James Foster – Oct 10
TRIED BY COURT-MARTIAL AND EXECUTED BY MILITARY:
A.N. Johnson & John Cottrell (together, with Wm McCool)
SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE:
Mr. Floyd
Note: Three of the men (not sure which ones) with an execution date of Oct 13 were hanged on Oct 12. Nineteen men were executed on Oct 19, and this list only shows 17 trials for men who supposedly were hanged on the 19th. McCaslin lists John W. Morris and Gilbert Smith with the men who were hanged on Oct 19, but Diamond does not list a trial for them. As always, corrections are welcomed.
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Ephraim Childs – Oct 2
A.D. Scott - Oct 19
M.D. Harper – Oct 4
Henry Fields – Oct 4
I.W.P. Lock – Oct 7
W.W. Morris – Oct 8
Richard Anderson - Oct 19
Dr. Eli Thomas – Oct 19
TRIED TOGETHER:
Edward Hampton - Oct 10
John A. Morris – Oct 19
John M. Crisp – Oct 19
Samuel Carmichael – Oct 13
TRIED TOGETHER - Oct 13
C.A. Jones, James Powers, Eli M. Scott, Thomas Baker, Geo W. Anderson, Abraham McNeese, Henry Cockrum, C.F. Anderson, Wm Wernell, B.F. Barnes, Wm Rodes, & N.M. Clark
Ramey Dye – Oct 13
D.M. Leffel – Oct 19
TRIED TOGETHER – Oct 19
James A. Ward & W.B. Taylor
H.J. Esman – Oct 19
W.W. Johnson – Oct 19
Richard N. Martin – Oct 19
Barnabas Birch – Oct 19
TRIED TOGETHER – Oct 19
Curd Goss, Wm Anderson, John Miller, Ar (Phax) Dawson, & M.W. Morris
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SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE:
Dr. James Foster – Oct 10
TRIED BY COURT-MARTIAL AND EXECUTED BY MILITARY:
A.N. Johnson & John Cottrell (together, with Wm McCool)
SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE:
Mr. Floyd
Note: Three of the men (not sure which ones) with an execution date of Oct 13 were hanged on Oct 12. Nineteen men were executed on Oct 19, and this list only shows 17 trials for men who supposedly were hanged on the 19th. McCaslin lists John W. Morris and Gilbert Smith with the men who were hanged on Oct 19, but Diamond does not list a trial for them. As always, corrections are welcomed.
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2 comments:
It seems as if Diamond mismanaged the records from the time that he received them. He probably took everything out that made those who participated in the jury look bad. I think that the list of victims that James Lemuel Clark compiled is a more complete list of victims. The mock jury tried and condemned the men to death, but Diamond is as guilty for editorializing the records to give a slanted view and letting the records become lost to history.
It does seem that Diamond mismanaged the records. He was definitely not a historian. One has to wonder if the original records had the victims' full names or if Diamond got lazy and sloppy and just listed many of them by their initials.
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