The free state of Jones : Mississippi's longest civil war /

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 de...

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Main Author: Bynum, Victoria E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
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