| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

Brush Men & Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas. By David Pickering and Judy Falls. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000. xxv + 223 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

     Pro-Confederate vigilantes hanged several real, or imagined, opponents in northeast Texas in 1862 and 1863. Authors Pickering and Falls have done excellent work in bringing those lynchings to an historical accounting. 1

     Five chapters and about 144 pages of text tell of animosities, murder, and exculpation along the fault line of Union versus secession sentiment in the upper reaches of the Sulphur River country. "Brush men" were the victims and were so called because they hid in hard-to-penetrate undergrowths known as thickets. 2

     The first chapter puts people, region, and vigilantism in historical context. The second recounts the February 1862 mass hanging of five men. Specific reasons lurked in the background, but the basic cause of the lynchings was that pro-Confederate neighbors refused to tolerate the victims' Unionism. . . .

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