He means, what the last 140 years would have looked like if the South had actually won the Civil War.
Oddly enough, I live in a Pro-Union county of Texas (at the time)
Williamson County was marked by political divisions during the secession crisis, divisions that were carried over into the Civil War and Reconstruction.qv Unionist sentiment was strong in the county, and a resolution denouncing secession was adopted by a Texas Constitutional Union partyqv meeting in Round Rock in 1860.
Here's the Civil War Murder of 8 men, 3 or 4 from Georgetown during the Civil War. Their relatives lived in the Georgetown Area till the 1980s as far as I am aware of. The Sawyer Cemetery isn't on a map anymore though, but it wasn't covered by Lake Georgetown. (May be on the Corps of Engineers property though)
In July 1863 eight Williamson County men were caught by Confederate troops while traveling to Mexico and were hung near Bandera, Texas, and other Unionists were persecuted during the war.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/WW/hcw11.htmlThis doesn't really show too much about the detail, but chances are, if you just search "Sawyer Massacre, Civil War" you can definitely find a little bit more information. (Locals call it a Massacre, but others may call it just a "hanging", in the book about Williamson County, "Land of Goodwater", it has a lot of information on the subject.
Edit: After a quick search, I found a lil more information on the subject:
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHistory/TexasHistoricTrees/Bandera/BanderaTragedyTree.htmAlso found the letter to the editor from one of the G-G-Grandkids.
Dear Editor, Your article suggests that the men hanged outside of Bandera TX, in July of 1863, were going to Mexico to avoid conscription into the Confederate Army. I would like to point out that records indicate at least two of the men were in the [Confederate] army and on a forty-day pass.
William M. Sawyer, my paternal great, great, grandfather, had enlisted in the Confederate Army July 8, 1862, in Gurly's Regiment, Co. D, Texas Partisans of the Texas Cavalry (later designated the 30th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A) His brother, Coston J. Sawyer was also in the Texas Cavalry, Co. A, of Morgans Squadron.
These men in no way [were] guilty of any wrongdoing. They willingly gave up their arms and agreed to accompany Major Anderson to Camp Verde, but were murdered enroute.
Your article also fails to note that on April 24, 1866 the State of Texas indicted Major Anderson for murder and highway robbery. Major Anderson had of course long since disappeared.
- Sincerely, Jason Sawyer, December 08, 2003
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