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

Victoria E. Bynum

Univ of North Carolina Press, Feb 1, 2003 - History - 336 pages

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 headquarters i

Contents

• II: 11
• III: 29
• IV: 47
• V: 68
• VI: 99
• VII: 104
• VIII: 105
• IX: 108
• X: 112
• XI: 128
• XII: 131
• XIII: 138
• XIV: 143
• XV: 146
• XVI: 151
• XVII: 152
• XVIII: 153
• XIX: 157
• XX: 159
• XXI: 161
• XXII: 162
• XXIII: 163
• XXIV: 164
• XXV: 165
• XXVI: 174
• XXIX: 189
• XXX: 191
• XXXI: 192
• XXXII: 194
• XXXIII: 195
• XXXIV: 198
• XXXV: 199
• XXXVI: 202
• XXXVII: 203
• XXXVIII: 206
• XXXIX: 278
• XL: 302

About the author

Victoria E. Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies and Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War; Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
• Author: Victoria E. Bynum
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0807854670, 9780807854679
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); History / United States / State & Local / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies