Download or read book The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862 written by and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862. The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862, combines two accounts of the events surrounding the executions along with an introduction by noted Civil War historian Richard B. McCaslin and an afterword by L.D. Clark, a descendent of one of the men hanged.