I hope you’ll join us on June 26 for this discussion on Civil War dissent and The Free State of Jones!
Victoria Bynum to speak at Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance
Dissent, Desertion, and Unionism in the Confederate South: My Interview with “Red Strings & Maroons”
By Vikki Bynum I first learned about the Red Strings—known formally as “The Heroes of America“—in 1983 while researching Civil War dissenters, deserters, and guerrilla bands in the North Carolina State Archives. The […]
The Free State of Jones Movie to be released June 24, 2016
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Alzada Courtney of the Free State of Jones: She “defended her home with a fence rail.”
By Vikki Bynum Born in 1828, Alzada Courtney of Jones County, Mississippi, lived long enough to provide Tom Knight with a testimonial for his tribute to his father, Newt Knight, and the […]
Thomas P. Maness, Civil War Dissenter from Moore County, North Carolina
Some weeks ago, Lacy A. Garner, Jr., submitted a comment to one of my posts that included the following Civil War story about Thomas P. Maness of Ritter township, Moore County, North […]
A Southern Unionist Poem, 1864
By Vikki Bynum Many years ago, while researching my doctoral dissertation in the North Carolina State Archives, I came across a curious poem in the official papers of Civil War Governor Zeb […]
Remembering William T. Auman, Civil War Historian
At the state archives I found the testimony of a wife about the killing of her [Unionist] husband. He was shot while plowing . . . . A man walked up, squatted […]
The Lynching of Methodist Minister Anthony Bewley in Civil War Era Texas
The following post was submitted to Renegade South by Tim Sumrall. Particularly noteworthy is that Rev. Anthony Bewley was lynched for his pro-Union views in 1860, well before secession from the Union […]
Newt Knight, the story goes on forever, continued: Southern Unionism Under Scrutiny
The following is Ed Payne’s third and final essay regarding the newly-rediscovered 1880 pension claim of Newt Knight, leader of the Knight Company of “Free State of Jones” fame. Here, Ed takes […]
Newt Knight: The story goes on forever . . .
Despite all the research that’s been conducted on Newt Knight, new material is still being discovered! After Grady Howell of the State Archives in Jackson, MS, discovered yet another example of Newt’s […]
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