I’m excited to announce that my new book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, has been released! Click here to see its table of contents. To purchase a […]
Just Released: “The Long Shadow of the Civil War”
Ed Payne: “Collateral Damage”: Civil War Widows of Jones County, MS
Note from Moderator Vikki Bynum: Author and independent historian Ed Payne will give a talk on “Sarah Collins and the Free State of Jones,” in Hattiesburg at the South Mississippi Genealogical and Historical […]
Preview of Cover for THE LONG SHADOW OF THE CIVIL WAR
I am delighted with the cover designed by University of North Carolina Press for The Long Shadow of the Civil War, forthcoming February 2010. The cover’s shadowy figures and shrouded landscape not only suggest the enduring importance of place, family, and kinship in the South, […]
John M. Baylis: The Confederate Side of Jones County
Reading Renegade South, one might gain the impression that all of Jones County supported the Union during the Civil War. That was certainly not the case, although the county did give a substantial […]
Part Three: Review of Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, State of Jones
by Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). The following is the third and final installment of my review […]
Newspaper Reports on Col. Robert Lowry’s Raid on the Mississippi Piney Woods
As promised, I am posting two articles from Confederate newspapers that reported on Col. Robert Lowry’s raids on Smith and Jones County, Mississippi. Note (as in both the letters previously posted) the prominence of Unionist Ben Hawkins […]
More on James Morgan Valentine and the Free State of Jones
Today I posted excerpts and analysis of James Morgan Valentine’s two depositions on behalf of Newt Knight’s Unionist petitions to the U.S. Court of Claims, 1890 and 1895. To see them, click here: […]
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