During the past six months, I have received several messages from independent researcher Jeff Giambrone, who sent me a number of Civil War letters and newspaper articles that he has uncovered through his […]
Nancy Stevens Reflects on Growing up White in Segregated Mississippi
Nancy Stevens wrote the following memoir some months after we began communicating about our mutual descent from the Bynum family of Jones County, Mississippi. Nancy was kind enough to send me excerpts from the Bible […]
Reflections on the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War
The following essay is crossposted on the special Civil War Sesquicentennial website hosted by the University of North Carolina Press. Vikki Bynum, Moderator Reflections on the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Victoria Bynum As […]
Ed Payne: “Unionism and a Murder in the Family: Robert Spencer”
While conducting his ongoing research on men who joined the Union Army from the Piney Woods region of Mississippi, Ed Payne discovered the following story buried in the military files of one Robert Spencer. […]
Announcement: Ed Payne to present on Scottish Settlements in Piney Woods Mississippi
“The Collins and McLaurin Families: Diverging Paths in the Piney Woods” Ed Payne, a frequent guest blogger on Renegade South, will present his original research on two Scottish families, the Collins and […]
Horse Thieves and Cattle Rustlers: The White Family of Jones County, Mississippi
by Vikki Bynum Over the past few years, the following passage from the 1938 book, Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State, has prompted several folks to write me at Renegade South: On […]
Jon Odell: “Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement”
Note from Moderator: Jonathan Odell has given me permission to reprint the following essay. For more of Jon’s creative writings, visit him at http://jon-odell.com/ Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother […]
Ed Payne: “Unionist Naming of Mississippi Children, 1861-1880”
Unionist naming of Mississippi children: 1861-1880 By Ed Payne In December of 1867, former Knight Band member and staunch Unionist Jasper Collins named his first son born after the Civil War, Ulysses […]
Newt Knight vs. the U.S. Court of Claims revisited: Montgomery Blackwell’s deposition
For thirty years, guerrilla leader Newt Knight of Jasper County, Mississippi, sought compensation as a Unionist from the U.S. government on behalf of himself and 54 men who had belonged to his […]
Elijah Wilson Lyon and The Progressive Tradition among the Lyon Family of Southeast Mississippi
Note: A few weeks ago, Renegade South published a story of murder and mayhem among the Lyon and Landrum families of Jones County. Accusations of murder notwithstanding, the southeastern Mississippi Lyon family […]
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