By Vikki Bynum Ed Payne’s current series on Mississippi Piney Woods Civil War Unionists, “Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties,” provides a timely context for a closer look at Oquin C. Martin, a former Confederate […]
Ed Payne, “Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties,” Part 2
Part 2: No better than runaway slaves: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st N.O. Infantry By Ed Payne Between November of 1863 and November of 1864, over two hundred Mississippi […]
Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st and 2nd New Orleans Infantry
Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st and 2nd New Orleans Infantry By Ed Payne Part I Two years ago I gave a presentation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a […]
New documents verifying Unionism in the Mississippi Piney Woods
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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