Mr. AGSPRT04 said:
The war they call civil had barely begun
Me and my cousins decided we'd run
Up through Louisianan to meet up with Grant
But one hundred damn rebels shot us there in the sand
At Indianola
Martin Cash said:
My great grandfather came here from Prussia in the 1850's and opened a leather tannery in Yorktown. When the Confederacy tried to force him to make boots, saddles, holsters etc, he packed up his family and went back to Prussia. After the war was over, he came back and reopened his tannery.
Rabid Cougar said:
There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.
My relative was the Sherriff of Cooke County at the time.Aggie1205 said:Rabid Cougar said:
There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.
Just read up on this. I had never heard of it before.
I have some very close friends that live on large acreage in Cooke County that live on Lynch Crossing Road....many of those lynched are believed to have been secretly buried on what is now their property.Aggie1205 said:Rabid Cougar said:
There was also a mass hanging (41) in Gainesville of suspected Union sympathizers in October 1862. They were mainly against the draft.
Just read up on this. I had never heard of it before.
dead zip 01 said:
Because many Texas Germans were pro union The civil war monument in the main plaza in New Braunfels is a generic statue of a soldier that isn't identified as either confederate or union with an inscription along the lines of "in memory of our fallen soldiers"