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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
xxiv, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 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, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they declared their loyalty to the U.S. government. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to...