Monday, January 16, 2017

Women in Civil War Texas

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: