A few days ago, one of my new Myspace friends, Sheri Welch Hilbun, expressed an interest in knowing more about her Welch ancestors. Specifically, she asked me if I knew where Welch […]
Ed Payne to Speak About Sarah Collins at Laurel-Jones County Library
Independent historian Ed Payne, of Jackson, will present “Sarah Collins: Pioneer Woman in the Free State of Jones” before the Jones County Genealogical and Historical Society at the Laurel-Jones County Library on […]
B.T. Collins on John H. Powell, Jones County Delegate to the Mississippi Secession Convention of 1861
The following is a guest-post by B. T. Collins, great-grandson of Jasper Collins, and great-great grandson of John H. Powell. John Hathorne Powell was Jasper’s father-in-law, and also Jones County’s delegate to […]
Riley J. Collins post on Southern Unionists Chronicles
For those of you following the Collins family posts, please don’t miss my post on the Union pension file of Riley J. Collins over at Southern Unionists Chronicles. Riley was brother to Simeon and Jasper […]
Simeon Collins: An Important Family Link Between Mississippi and Texas
By Vikki Bynum As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, and after exchanging emails with Greg Rowe, (see blogroll, American Civil War Essays & Research), I decided to write a bit about Greg’s […]
Collins Family Unionism, Mississippi to Texas
By Vikki Bynum We’ve all the heard the cliché “truth is stranger than fiction,” but it’s always amazing to find an historical event that one can only imagine happening in a novel. […]
New: RSS Feed for Southern Unionists Chronicles
Please note on the sidebar of Renegade South’s homepage that Robert Moore’s blog, Southern Unionists Chronicles is now one click away thanks to the addition of an RSS Feed. I encourage readers not […]
Kill or be Killed: Bill Owens’s Guerrilla War
Continuing my focus on North Carolina Unionists, the following is an excerpt from the essay “Guerrilla Wars,” chapter one of The Long Shadow of the Civil War. The ruthlessness of the Bill Owens […]
Unionists at War in the N.C. Quaker Belt
Unionist communities existed throughout the Confederate South during the Civil War. “The Free State of Jones” is an exciting story with its own unique characteristics, but it was only one of many inner civil wars between Unionists and Confederates […]
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