The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy

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The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy

by Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer

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New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.

The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the South that has been mytholog...more

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Published June 23rd 2009 by Random House Large Print (first published 2009)

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Aug 09, 2011

Ken added it · review of another edition

The State of Jones details the little known resistance against the Confederacy in a several Southeastern counties of Mississippi. The resistance was led by the hero of this book Newton Knight who had always been a unionist, but had been pressed into service to fight against the North. He fought in the battle of Vicksburg against the South, but after Grant released the captured Southern forces, Knight went home and began living in the woods around his home in Jones county. He and several hundr...moreThe State of Jones details the little known resistance against the Confederacy in a several Southeastern counties of Mississippi. The resistance was led by the hero of this book Newton Knight who had always been a unionist, but had been pressed into service to fight against the North. He fought in the battle of Vicksburg against the South, but after Grant released the captured Southern forces, Knight went home and began living in the woods around his home in Jones county. He and several hundred other men who had deserted, were disaffected by the "20 Negro Law" (The 20 Negro law permitted those who owned at least 20 slaves to avoid service,) or were unionist, lived in the backwoods and swamps and began plaguing the Confederate government of Mississippi. They were such a problem that the South sent in a fighting force of some 500 men to crush them. They had a hard time getting at Knight and the others and used Gestapo like tactics to try and bring them out of hiding and fight int he open. They burned down the resistance fighters homes, threatened to murder their kin and other such atrocities. They did succeed for a brief time in forcing the resistance fighters out of the fight however as soon as they left the unionists went back into action.

Knight was the son of a slave owner, but was the only one of twelve children who did not inherit slaves. He refused to be a slave owner and hated the institution. Eventually he would live with a women who had been one of his relative's slaves and would be the scandal of the county, violating all kinds of miscegenation laws. He was defiant to the end always carrying weapons when he went out.

The authors chose a fascinating and forgotten, yet important history. We learned of the amount of pro-Unionist sentiment in Mississippi before the war. The Unionists were shouted down and intimidated by the secessionists. We also learned more about how the confederate leaders of Miss. were able to take back the government during Reconstruction and destroy any hope of the freedman to have a civil rights in Mississippi over the next century. If anyone has gotten this far in the review you may realize it isn't really a review, but more of a way for me to remember the book.

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Jan 31, 2012

Skipr rated it

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I didn't know about the controversy surrounding this book when I checked it out of the library. It's entertaining; just hard to believe. The authors lost credibility with me when, in describing the Piney Woods of south Mississippi they spoke of "red deer" (what happened to the white-tails?), and pine trees "shooting up nearly 60 feet high" (what happened to all the pines over 100 feet?). Then there was their description of Mobile, Alabama on the "shimmering azure of the ...more

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Aug 04, 2009

Steven Peterson rated it

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This is one of the more intriguing tales of the Civil War. In Jones County, Mississippi, we see a movement by residents to steer clear of the South. Yes, in Mississippi--at the heart of the Confederate States of America and home of Jefferson Davis' plantation. This breakaway region fought against and gave heartburn to the Confederacy.

The book focuses on the character of Newton Knight. He began the war drafted into the southern force. He fought at the bloody battle in Corinth, where a...moreThis is one of the more intriguing tales of the Civil War. In Jones County, Mississippi, we see a movement by residents to steer clear of the South. Yes, in Mississippi--at the heart of the Confederate States of America and home of Jefferson Davis' plantation. This breakaway region fought against and gave heartburn to the Confederacy.

The book focuses on the character of Newton Knight. He began the war drafted into the southern force. He fought at the bloody battle in Corinth, where a harebrained general, Earl Van Dorn (a book based on current knowledge should be written about him!!), was thoroughly whipped despite the valiant efforts of Confederate troops. Knight and many others were upset by the killing of so many of their friends. Even worse, sometime after the battle the "Twenty Negro Law" was passed, excusing those who owned 20 or more slaves. This alienated many non slave owners, who would refer to the phrase "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" as a result. Knight and others deserted as a result.

The book then describes the opposition to the southern government and its military in Jones County. Knight, clearly, was involved, but so, too, were others. A sort of guerilla war ensued, a Civil War within a Civil War, so to speak.

Especially interesting about this book is its view of Knight after the war. He had multitudinous children by his own wife, Serena, as well as many children by an African-American woman, Rachel, whom he seemed to deem as his "second wife." This, of course, was scandalous and ended with Knight being shunned by many of even his own former rebels. For the time, his choice was remarkable. So, too, the fact that for some years, children of Serena and Rachel worked and played--and sometimes married--together. Over time, the forces of Jim Crow created huge tensions among the families.

All in all, a story that is frankly absolutely fascinating. There are issues with this book. I do not know enough of the actual history of events depicted in the book to be able to challenge specifics as other reviewers do. The book is not the most smoothly written book that I have read. And then there are points that jarred. For example, in describing the battle of Corinth that (page 25) ". . .grapeshot tore into the neat Confederate lines. . . ." The authors were probably referring to canister, since grapeshot was not used nearly so much as canister in the Civil War (basically cans filled with zillions of tiny pieces of metal, acting as a large shotgun and cutting swaths through lines of infantry). Also, the linkage with a movie after the fact raises a few questions for me, but is not, in the end, a serious matter in my mind.
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Jul 13, 2009

Joan added it · review of another edition

There is a part of the history of the American Civil War that is not very well-known, that is rarely taught in the schools. It is the story of southerners who believed in the Union, who not only refused to fight for the Confederacy, but actively fought against it. Some did so by joining the Union forces, others did so by engaging in guerrilla warfare. The rural county of Jones in Mississippi was a stronghold of men who opposed secession. Some were staunch Unionists. Some were anti-slavery. Some ...moreThere is a part of the history of the American Civil War that is not very well-known, that is rarely taught in the schools. It is the story of southerners who believed in the Union, who not only refused to fight for the Confederacy, but actively fought against it. Some did so by joining the Union forces, others did so by engaging in guerrilla warfare. The rural county of Jones in Mississippi was a stronghold of men who opposed secession. Some were staunch Unionists. Some were anti-slavery. Some believed it was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. One such man was Newton Knight, and this is his story.

Newton Knight was the grandson of Jackie Knight, one of the early settlers in this part of Mississippi. By the time war came, he was "merely a rich man in a state full of tycoons", but the owner of several hundred acres of cotton and rice, and of a couple of dozen slaves. But his son, Albert, Newton's father, unlike Jackie's other children, refused to own any slaves, and led a modest life as a shoemaker and tanner. This split in the family would echo down through the years and the generations.

When the Civil War began, Newton, like many others, was forced into service in the Confederate Army. After Vicksburg, he, like many others, deserted. He spent the rest of the war with a band of like-minded souls, fighting the Confederacy in Jones County. The book does not, however, end with Lee's surrender, because the war really didn't end there. There was a period when men like Knight were in the ascendancy, when it looked as though the Union had won the war. But it soon became apparent that, in Mississippi at least, the South had won. National politics meant that the federal government soon declined to enforce the rule of law, and ex-Confederates came to power through murder and intimidation at the polls, leaving a legacy of racial injustice that still haunts this country today.

There's another part of Newton's story that's told here, the story of his love for a black woman, a woman named Rachel who was owned by his grandfather. Newton was married to a woman named Serena, by whom he had several children, but he also had children by Rachel. Now, it wasn't unusual for a white man to have children by a slave woman. What was unusual was that theirs was a true consensual relationship. He viewed her as his wife (the authors suggest that later conversions of some members of the family to Mormonism might have been caused, at least in part, by that faith's then recognition of plural marriage), he recognized and helped to raise and support his children by her, he made sure she had financial independence.

One would like to know what it was that caused Albert (and, through him, his children) to be not only opposed to slavery, but a friend to African-Americans. I cannot, however, fault the authors for being unable to answer this question; it is, at this remove, likely unanswerable.

I was, for the most part, riveted by this book. If I have any quibble with it, it is that in the early part it jumps around a bit too much for my taste. However, the authors combine serious scholarship and research (among other things, they located and interviewed descendants of Knight) with good storytelling. Civil War buffs will appreciate the vivid descriptions of the battle of Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg, and the guerrilla bands. About the only folks who won't like this book are those who don't want their preconceived ideas about the south and the Confederacy disturbed.

(For another story of Union sympathizers in the South, this one fiction, I highly recommend Sharyn McCrumb's Ghost Rideres, one of her "Ballad Series".) (less)

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Jul 12, 2010

David rated it

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The authors missed so many basic facts, that I found myself wondering how much I could believe. For example: they described the muskets as weighing 18 lbs! (maybe two muskets might weigh that) On another page, they described the sound of musket hammers falling on gunpowder. On the standard muskets used by both sides, the hammers fell on percussion caps producing a sharp snap, not the pfft they claimed.

I finally gave up when Knight (maybe) kills McLemore, and the authors claim...more

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Dec 18, 2009

Unwisely rated it

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This is another entry in my unintentional American History series. I picked it up because the author (or, apparently, one of two) was on the Daily Show. A Union fighter from Mississippi sounded interesting. And it was.

So. I learned that there is an *awful lot* I don't know about the Civil War. Not that I ever thought I paid much attention to history, but it seems pretty clear that the storyline I was fed in grade school didn't really capture the complexities. (I didn't pay atte...more

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Aug 04, 2009

Tom rated it

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First time historical writer Jenkins, with an assist from Harvard history professor John Stauffer, tells the story of Southern Unionists in Jones County Mississippi who fought a guerrilla action against the Confederacy, in particular their leader Newton Knight. Knight was a deserter from the Confederate Army who believed in human equality far beyond even many Northern abolitionists. He knew owned a slave and had several children and grandchildren by one of his grandfather's. Not only that, he...more

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Aug 01, 2009

John rated it

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I heard the authors on NPR and thought that the story sound intriguing. I knew nothing about the particulars of the story of Newton Knight and his fellow countians/Mississippians who fought in Mississippi to preserve the Union. It really is a story of the poor yeoman farmer in the South who had little in common with the upper elite of the Confederate army who ultimately came to the conclusion that the Southern motive were not worth fighting and dying for. The story centers on Newton and his ...more

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Jun 14, 2010

Denise rated it

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Texas was the only state that allowed a vote (yea/nay) to secede from the Union at the beginning of the Civil War. The rest of the southern states had that decision decided for them by their elected delegates who did NOT always follow the wishes of their constituents. Yes...there were many southerners who OPPOSED secession and the Civil War and stayed true to the Union throughout the war. This book details one such group in Mississippi.

Also goes into graphic detail about the true ho...more

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Feb 27, 2010

John rated it

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This is a great book. Although I don't enjoy the written style so much--it's more geared towards essay writing, and as a novel, I feel like I'm strapped to the front of a bus atop a San Fransisco hill with no breaks... It's just that there is a lot of information--primary sources that are weaved into a (very large) narrative--without the rest-stops that novels (must) use. However, by the time you get to the end of it, you feel very satisfied. Not only do you get the history of Newton and Jones, ...more

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Mar 26, 2011

Marc rated it

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This was a great read and I enjoyed how the book deconstructed the myth of the monolithic south: that all southerners embraced the "lost cause." Truth be told, many southerners saw the war as a rich man's struggle to ensure the institution of slavery. More importantly, State of Jones provides a brief glimpse of how reconstruction failed due to the North's inability to follow through on many of its promises and through sheer violence and terror at the hands of many Mississippians whose ...more

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Nov 18, 2010

Ed rated it

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If you like Southern history, especially the Civil War era, this drawn out account might be a good bet for you. I won't rehash the plot. The premise, a white man "married" to an African-American lady, in race-torn Mississippi during the reign of Jim Crow is an intriguing one. Newton Knight is a strong character with a definite worldview on things. Some of the material, like Grant's gritty siege of Vicksburg, is familiar ground to us Civil War buffs. From what I can tell, the title is w...more

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Aug 02, 2011

Michael T. rated it

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Here's a book to confound your sense of the Civil War era deep south as "unified, racist & Confederate". Dirt farmer Newton Knight was none of these things. A lifelong resident of rural Jones County, Mississippi, Knight was morally opposed to slavery, and an avowed Unionist. He resented, naturally, being conscripted into a Confederacy which did not represent him nor his interests, nor the interests of the poor people with whom he lived. And he was far from alone. Knight and his fellow ...moreHere's a book to confound your sense of the Civil War era deep south as "unified, racist & Confederate". Dirt farmer Newton Knight was none of these things. A lifelong resident of rural Jones County, Mississippi, Knight was morally opposed to slavery, and an avowed Unionist. He resented, naturally, being conscripted into a Confederacy which did not represent him nor his interests, nor the interests of the poor people with whom he lived. And he was far from alone. Knight and his fellow insurrectionists (mostly Confederate army deserters like himself) numbered in the hundreds, and essentially controlled Jones County for the last half of the Civil War. This was the era that the term "A rich man's war & a poor man's fight" was first coined. Some of the documentation of Knight during this period and after is sadly fragmentary, because, after all, while the Confederacy lost the Civil War, her racists essentially won the peace, & had everything their own way for about the following hundred years. This included not only "Jim Crow" laws, the Klan, lynchings, etc, but also the way that the history itself was told. But, working with what documentation has survived (and an invaluable interview which a 90+ year old Newton Knight finally granted in 1921 to New Orleans journalist Miegs O. Frost), Sally Jenkins & John Stauffer have accomplished a fascinatingly readable chronicle of the whole period from the perspective of an individual who, given the mythology of the "lost cause" of the Confederacy, & the "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" of the following Reconstruction era which many of us learned in High School, we scarcely would have believed even existed. But Newton Knight did exist -- as did his second wife Rachel, a former slave with whom Knight started a second family after the War. It was also Rachel who had probably been single-handedly responsible for keeping Knight alive when he was first on the run. And while it was not unusual for a white man to father children with black women during this time, what Newton Knight did was VERY unusual -- he not only acknowledged his children and his union with Rachel, but he went out of his way to make sure that Rachel was able to inherit a share of his land. Unheard of at the time. And scandalous, even to -- or rather, ESPECIALLY to -- members of Knight's own white family. But I am condensing a story which Jenkins & Stauffer tell much better. If any of this has piqued your interest, I highly recommend this one.(less)

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Apr 07, 2010

Laura rated it

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This amazing history book reads like a novel. I was fascinated at every turn: The description of the siege at Vicksburg, the utter decimation visited on the South as wartime policy, and the heartrending aftermath of the war. I'd been aware that blacks had been granted the vote in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War; I had never fully understood why the federal government allowed Jim Crow laws and the essential reversal of all the North fought for.

This beautifully written to...more

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May 21, 2011

bup rated it

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While the subject matter is fascinating - and so romantic and swashbuckling that I doubted its truth when I first heard about it (in To Kill a Mockingbird), I can only go 4 stars. The subject matter, by the way, is a man who defied the confederate government and remained loyal to the Union, organizing a company to antagonize the confederate government of Mississippi. Which still makes it well worth the read, but I was expecting to love this book.

Either most of the life of Newton Knig...moreWhile the subject matter is fascinating - and so romantic and swashbuckling that I doubted its truth when I first heard about it (in To Kill a Mockingbird), I can only go 4 stars. The subject matter, by the way, is a man who defied the confederate government and remained loyal to the Union, organizing a company to antagonize the confederate government of Mississippi. Which still makes it well worth the read, but I was expecting to love this book.

Either most of the life of Newton Knight, the man who led a loyal Union band of Mississippians in the backwoods of Jones County during the Civil War, effectively neutralizing the local confederate government, is truly mostly lost to history, or the authors didn't uncover enough of it. Much of the book is about ancillary events during the war and Reconstruction, and with the authors admitting "we don't know what Newton thought about X, but we can imagine..."

Also frustrating was the obligatory photo pages in the middle. There is a picture of our hero, Newton, there's two pictures of women that might be his wife Rachel, and then there are random pictures of Civil War generals, Civil War camps, and Civil War dead bodies. No pictures of his wife Serena, although a photo of her is described in the text, and no picture of the land/swamps where they lived, or descendants. I hope it was because of legal issues they couldn't print the photos that exist of Serena, and not an editorial decision, because that's just inexplicable.

In the end, the book is really neither a biography of Knight, nor a story of The State of Jones, but some of each, plus some more "listen to all this bad stuff that happened in Mississippi and throughout the South." But I'm glad I read it. You take what you can get, and this does have a lot of fascinating stuff.

Newton Knight was the son of a slave owner, and had a white legal wife, but also an acknowledged black (as meaningfully as that term can be used, anyway - she almost certainly had some European blood and Indian blood, too - hey, welcome to America!) common law wife and families by each. Rachel, the wife of color, seems to have been the love of his life, and Knight lived by his own set of rules, pretty clearly, in all aspects of his life. And not because he was doing what was easy, either - he clearly followed a true internal moral code. And he didn't back down, even when that life was threatened.

So, in short, we should all know the name of Newton Knight, and the story of the meta-rebellious union enclave in Mississippi during the Civil War, but nobody seems to.(less)

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Nov 12, 2009

andrea rated it

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Fascinating account of Newton Knight, the Mississippi yeoman who, according to legend, deserted from the Confederate army and led a pro-Union/anti-slavery guerrilla force against the Confederacy. This read like historical fiction and was an absorbing tale of survival in the Piney Woods; the interracial romance between Knight and a slave woman that belonged to his family; the injustices that plagued the Confederate troops and civillians; and the horror wrought by the KKK during the Reconstructio...more

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Feb 19, 2010

Nate rated it

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I really enjoyed this book. It was comforting to finally have some well researched evidence that the South was not nearly as unified as most historians claim it was.

The story helped me better appreciate the American ideals that the Civil War was fought for, and helped me to realize that there were a lot of good people in the South who did not want to withdraw from the union.

This book also gave me some perspective on how important it is to defend through law what you f...more

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Apr 06, 2011

Jennifer rated it

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I'm not typically interested in reading history for fun, but this was a book club read. I really did enjoy the book and am glad I read it. I wouldn't say the book is total nonfiction, but I enjoyed how it follows Newton Knight and his family through life in Mississippi during the Civil War. The book gave me a much better perspective on what it was like for soldiers on both sides during the war, as well as what it was like for families. I especially enjoyed the perspective of someone living in th...more

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Jul 24, 2011

Dominic Longo rated it

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The State of Jones is a great book based on the Civil War contributions of Newton Knight and his band of men that ditched the Confederate Civil War effort in a small Mississippi county. Jenkins and Stauffer show how a country man changed the course of the Civil War and racial relations in the postbellum years and into the mid-20th century. This book tells an amazing story and is written in such a way that it is almost like a novel and not a history book.

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Aug 31, 2009

Mariel rated it

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I am assigning the prologue and first chapter to my students this semester. I wanted a book that talked about the war and the conditions of war without focusing on military history in a battle-tastic way. There is a compelling narrative here, well written, straight-forward without being boring. The book does a great job presenting the class differences of the South, which sometimes gets lost in the discussion.

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Oct 24, 2010

james rated it

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This book chronicles a civil war inside the Civil War. From 1863 to 1865, most of the southeastern part of Mississippi was opposed to the Confederacy and the then government of the state. Attempts by the Confederate Army to restore control were disastrous defeats for that army. Most of this rebellion was centered in the area of Jones County, which contains the city of Laurel, and thus the name.

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Dec 05, 2009

Kate rated it

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This and interesting story of southern unionists and confederate deserters. Although the story focuses on Newt Knight, it really talks in general about the life of poor farmers who were opposed to the confederacy during the civil war and afterward. Its appalling the conditions people were expected to life and fight under. Particularly Mississippi after the war was horrific. An interesting read, but the book was slow at times.

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Jul 21, 2011

Tom Darrow rated it

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Good story. Does a good job at showing how the south was not united as one in their fight against the north. Class divisions were pretty extreme and caused many lower class people to give up the fight or, in the case of Jones County, try to join the other side. Does a good job at showing the nature of backcountry fighting and how the home guard units operated in the south.

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Oct 20, 2009

Pat rated it

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Mississippi before, during and after the Civil War. There were Unionists who didn't agree with secession. They lived primarily in Jones County, and the leader was Newton Knight. What a wonderful book about how the Confederacy treated not just blacks, but poor farmers who made up the majority of the troops, and about how those downtrodden folks maintained their dignity and strength to build lives in a nondemocratic state.

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Jun 08, 2010

Ed Sullivan rated it

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A fascinating, largely unknown piece of Civil War history. There were a considerable number of nati-slavery, pro-Unionists living in southern Mississippi, some of whom took part in guerilla warfare against Conferderate forces. The authors sometimes rely too much upon conjecture and speculation, but the book appears to be well-researched and quite interesting.

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Oct 08, 2010

Evan rated it

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Seemed like a historical fiction book. I'm surprised at how bad the scholarship was. There is a lot of controversy over this book in that it was basically written a few years ago by Victoria Bynum. Learning that, put a sour taste in my mouth. The story of Jones County is very interesting however. Check it out, but try Bynum's book.

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Sep 07, 2010

Nick rated it

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I'm all for recounting larger events to provide context for the events recounted in a history, but it should account for less than 50% of the book. I really wanted to hear more about Jones County and less recounting of major battles and speculation on what the citizens of Jones "might" have been through based on what happened to others outside of that area.

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Sep 17, 2009

Nklein98 rated it

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There are so many books about the Civil War that I'm surprised to find one that is totally unique. This is the story of the Unionists who fought on the side of the Union even though they were deep in Confederate territory and formed independently of the Union Army. It is also the story of Newton Knight who was a member of the Jones County Unionists and also a white man who "married" an African American woman and raised a family, who he acknowledged as his own, with her. Sadly it als...more

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Jun 16, 2011

Mike Noel rated it

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An incredible story of an anti-slavery, Unionist Southerner who deserted the Confederate Army to protect himself and his friends and family from a rich man's war. Newton Knight is one of the great heroes in American history that you will probably never hear of.

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Jan 21, 2012

Jim rated it

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I have read numerous civil war books, but this tale was unfamilar to me. It involves a county in Mississippi that seceded from the Confederacy during the war, due to the horrible treatment of yeoman farmers by the aristocratic farmers. It's a great story!

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