The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War by Victoria E. Bynum

The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War

Victoria E. Bynum

352 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headqu...

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