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Author
Pub. Date
1989
Lexile measure
1440L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps, charts, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The...