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 […]
Speaking About Southern Unionists . . . and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement
Report: I just returned from a wonderful visit to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where I spoke generally about Civil War Southern Unionists and specifically about The Free State of Jones as […]
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. […]
Where is Deserters’ Den located?
Visitors to Renegade South often express interest in where Newt Knight and his band of deserters hid out during the Civil War; there’s even an essay devoted to the question on this blog. […]
New Documents on Col. Robert Lowry’s raid on Jones County, Mississippi
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, […]
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