Rand McNally recently named this North Texas town America's Most Patriotic City, but that red, white and blue slogan has collided with a grisly episode from 150 years ago: the Great Hanging of 1862, when vigilantes hanged 40 Union sympathizers and shot two more who tried to escape.
Rand McNally recently named this North Texas town America's Most Patriotic City, but that red, white
Newspaper article. Story of another mass hanging episode, this one in Texas, shows multiple perspectives on the past and how the Civil War lives in American memory.