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100 1  Bynum, Victoria E.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Free state of Jones :|bMississippi's longest civil war
       /|cVictoria E. Bynum ; with a new afterword by the author.
246 3  Mississippi's longest civil war. 
264  1 Chapel Hill :|bUniversity of North Carolina Press,|c[2016]
264  4 |c©2001 
300    xxiv, 324 pages :|billustrations, maps, charts, 
       genealogical tables ;|c23.5 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Sacred Wars: Race and the Ongoing Battle over the Free 
       State of Jones -- Origins of Mississippi's Piney Woods 
       People -- Jones County's Carolina Connection: Class and 
       Race in Revolutionary America -- Quest for Land: Yeoman 
       Republicans on the Southwestern Frontier -- Piney Woods 
       Patriarchs: Class Relations and the Growth of Slavery -- 
       Antebellum Life on the Leaf River: Gender, Violence, and 
       Religious Strife -- Civil War, Reconstruction, and the 
       Struggle for Power -- Inner Civil War: Birth of the Free 
       State of Jones -- Free State Turned Upside Down: Colonel 
       Lowry's Confederate Raid on Jones County -- Reconstruction
       and Redemption: The Politics of Race, Class, and Manhood 
       in Jones County -- Defiance and Domination: "White 
       Negroes" in the Piney Woods New South -- Epilogue: The 
       Free State of Jones Revisited: Davis Knight's 
       Miscegenation Trial -- Afterword -- Selected Descendants 
       of the Knight Family -- Selected Descendants of the 
       Coleman Family -- Selected Descendants of the Welborn 
       Family -- Selected Descendants of the Bynum Family -- 
       Selected Descendants of the Collins Family -- Selected 
       Descendants of the Sumrall Family -- Selected Descendants 
       of the Welch Family -- Selected Descendants of the 
       Valentine Family -- The "White Negro" Community, 1880-
       1920. 
520    Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of 
       Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the 
       Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling 
       themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton 
       Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied
       on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set
       up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There, 
       legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The 
       story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among 
       Mississippians, and debate over whether the county 
       actually seceded from the state during the war has 
       smoldered for more than a century. Adding further 
       controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's 
       interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a
       slave. Newt and Rachel's relationship resulted in the 
       growth of a mixed-race community that endured long after 
       the Civil War had ended. The ambiguous racial identity of 
       their descendants confounded the rules of segregated 
       Mississippi, as vividly evidenced by the 1948 
       miscegenation trial of great-grandson Davis Knight. In 
       this book, Victoria Bynum pierces through the haze of 
       romantic legend, Lost Cause rhetoric, popular memory, and 
       gossip that has long shrouded the story of the Free State 
       of Jones. Relying on exhaustive research in a wide range 
       of sources, she traces the origins and legacy of the Jones
       County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern
       civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the 
       legendary and the real Free State of Jones, Bynum shows 
       how the legend -- what was told, what was embellished, and
       what was left out -- reveals a great deal about the 
       South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial,
       gender, and class politics of the period; and the 
       contingent nature of history and memory. 
600 30 Knight family. 
650  0 Military deserters|zMississippi|zJones County|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Unionists (United States Civil War)|zMississippi|zJones 
       County. 
650  0 Racially mixed people|zMississippi|zJones County|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
651  0 Jones County (Miss.)|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 Jones County (Miss.)|xSocial conditions|y19th century. 
651  0 Mississippi|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xSocial 
       aspects. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xSocial 
       aspects. 
651  0 Jones County (Miss.)|vBiography. 
830  0 Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.