Recently, I received an email message from Richard A. Jermyn, Jr., whose great-great grandfather and great grandfather both participated in Confederate Col. Robert Lowry’s raid on the Unionist/deserter stronghold of Jones County, […]
Renegade South rated as one of 30 best Civil War blogs!
I’m pleased to announce that Renegade South was recently listed as one of the top Civil War blogs by Onlinecourses.net! To visit the Online Courses site, simply click the certificate below. Online Courses.net […]
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 […]
Newt Knight vs. the U.S. Court 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 […]
Harry Smeltzer, moderator of the Civil War blog, “Bull Runnings,” grants me an interview
Last night, Harry Smeltzer, moderator of the Civil War blog, “Bull Runnings: A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle,” posted an interview with me about Long Shadow of the […]
Remembering Southern Union Soldiers on Memorial Day
I received these photos from Deena Collins Aucoin this Memorial Day morning. The first is of Chalmette National Cemetery in New Orleans. The second is the grave of Riley J. Collins from […]
Which Newt Knight is this?
by Vikki Bynum Steve Tatum recently sent me the above photograph in which he identified the bearded old man as his ancestor, Joseph Newton “Newt” Knight of Tennessee. This Newt Knight, readers […]
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