Rebels Against Confederate Mississippi

Author : Victoria E. Bynum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838500

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Rebels Against Confederate Mississippi by Victoria E. Bynum Pdf

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. In this UNC Press Short, excerpted from The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, Victoria E. Bynum traces Newton Knight's story from his enlistment in the Confederate Army, to his desertion and formation of the Knight Company, to the violent clashes with Confederate authorities that culminated in the infamous Lowry raids of 1864. UNC Press Civil War Shorts excerpt compelling, shorter narratives from selected best-selling books published by the University of North Carolina Press and present them as engaging, quick reads. Produced exclusively in ebook format, these shorts present essential concepts, defining moments, and concise introductions to topics. They are intended to stir the imagination and encourage further exploration of the original publications from which these works are drawn.

Author : Thomas D. Cockrell,Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807127345

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A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia by Thomas D. Cockrell,Michael B. Ballard Pdf

Born the eighth child in a wealthy Mississippi plantation family in 1843, David Eldred Holt joined Company K of the 16th Mississippi Regiment in 1861 and served in the Eastern theater throughout the Civil War. Late in his life, at a time when many former soldiers, both Union and Confederate, were reliving their memories of that event, Holt penned this memoir, recounting the idyllic life of an affluent southern boy before the war and the exhilarating, sometimes humorous, often terrifying experiences of a common soldier in camp and in battle. This new edition has been expanded to include Holt's never-before-published diary entries from the last year of the war.

Author : David Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : OCLC:1302140974

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A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia by David Holt Pdf

Born the eighth child in a wealthy Mississippi plantation family in 1843, David Eldred Holt joined Company K of the 16th Mississippi Regiment in 1861 and served in the Virginia theater throughout the Civil War. Late in his life, at a time when many former soldiers, both Union and Confederate, were reliving their memories of that event, Holt penned this memoir, recounting the idyllic life of an affluent southern boy before the war and the exhilarating, sometimes humorous, often terrifying experiences of a common soldier in camp and battle.

Author : Allie Stuart Povall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467144001

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Rebels in Repose: Confederate Commanders After the War by Allie Stuart Povall Pdf

The irascible Jubal A. Early, Robert E. Lee's "bad old man," went to Canada after the war and remained an unreconstructed Rebel until his death. Lee became president of Washington College and urged reconciliation with the North. Braxton Bragg never found solid economic footing and remained mournful of slavery's demise until his own, when a heart attack took him in Galveston. The South's high command traveled dramatically divergent paths after the dissolution of the Confederacy. Their professional reputations were often rewritten accordingly, as the rise of the Lost Cause ideology codified the deification of Lee and the vilification of James Longstreet. Allie Povall shares the stories of nineteen of these former generals, touching briefly on their antebellum and wartime experiences before richly detailing their attempts to salvage livelihoods from the wreckage of America's defining cataclysm.

Author : Victoria E. Bynum
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854670

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The Free State of Jones by Victoria E. Bynum Pdf

Across a century, Victoria Bynum reinterprets the cultural, social, and political meaning of Mississippi's longest civil war, waged in the Free State of Jones, the southeastern Mississippi county that was home to a Unionist stronghold during the Civil War and home to a large and complex mixed-race community in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Jeff T. Giambrone
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 153166380X

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REMEMBERING MISSISSIPPIS CONFE by Jeff T. Giambrone Pdf

The Confederate States of America engaged in a battle for national survival that lasted four long and incredibly bloody years. The conflict went on for so long because thousands of rebels were willing to lay down their lives and defend their homes to the last man and last cartridge. Many of these soldiers were Mississippians--approximately 78,000 citizens of the Magnolia State can be documented as having served in the Civil War. Of this number, over 27,500 died either of disease or in combat. Remembering Mississippi's Confederates is a photographic tribute to the men who fought so gallantly for their state. Many of the images in this volume have never been published and come from the proud descendants of the soldiers themselves; others were acquired from collections spread across the United States.

Author : William Watson
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Scottish Rebel in the Confederate Army (Expanded, Annotated) by William Watson Pdf

What could possibly induce an educated, merchant Scotsman, with no citizenship in the U.S., no sympathy for slavery, and a clear opposition to secession, to join and fight for the Confederate Army? In this fascinating 1888 memoir by William Watson, you'll find out. As a foreigner, he had a unique and fairly dispassionate view of the impending calamity of the American Civil War. He had lived and done business in the South for several years, watching and listening to all points of view as the country slid towards disaster. He tells us: "I had already determined that I would never forswear or renounce my allegiance to Queen Victoria." But when war came, Watson joined the Baton Rouge Rifle Volunteer Company to fight for the Confederacy. His insights and very self-aware answers as to why will surprise you. His observations of life in the South before the war are worth the entire book. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Jason Phillips
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820328362

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Diehard Rebels by Jason Phillips Pdf

Concentrates on diehard rebel soldiers' faith in Confederate invincibility and reveals the history of southern culture as a continuum rather than a succession of old South, Confederacy, new South.

Author : Thomas Jefferson Knight,Ethel Knight
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781944686963

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The Free State of Jones and The Echo of the Black Horn by Thomas Jefferson Knight,Ethel Knight Pdf

Subject of the upcoming film Free State of Jones, this book provides recollections of the man who took on the Confederacy during the Civil War and established the liberated Mississippi county. Soldier, Father, Rebel. Outlaw. A man of deep convictions, Captain Newt Knight disagreed with the values of the South and was accused of deserting the Confederate army. He was a believer in doing what was just. During the Civil War, he formed his own band of deserters who would rebel against the Confederacy and support the Union. In the spring of 1864, the government in Jones County was effectively overthrown, and, the county was dubbed “The Free State of Jones.” Eventually, Knight would establish a mixed race town for both whites and former slaves to inhabit together. This edition merges two rare books on the subject; Thomas Jefferson Knight’s The Life and Activities of Captain Newt Knight and Ethel Knight’s The Echo at the Black Horn. Each paints a singular portrait of this elusive historical figure. Was he Civil War-Era Robin Hood or a manipulative cult leader? Both surely have fictitious elements determined by the authors' biases. Historian Jim Kelly provides a forward that helps examine the importance of each position on Newt Knight’s role in the conflict and what his motivations truly were. Now the subject of a new feature film, the experiences of Newt Knight will be brought back to light. This highly informative book helps to explore his life and give an in-depth look at the man—through the eyes of his son and grand-niece.

Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451641370

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Vicksburg by Donald L. Miller Pdf

Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. It took Grant’s army and Admiral David Porter’s navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg “Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history” (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant’s reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war—the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy.

Author : Jefferson Davis,Heros von Borcke,Robert E. Lee,Frank H. Alfriend,John Esten Cooke
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 3220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026879848

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REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents by Jefferson Davis,Heros von Borcke,Robert E. Lee,Frank H. Alfriend,John Esten Cooke Pdf

This meticulously edited collection offers you the true accounts about the Confederate States of America, including documents that were most influential for the creation of the states and the life stories of its principal leaders and officers. "The History of the Confederate States of America" and "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" represent the best source for understanding the background, the creation, fight and the ultimate defeat, written by the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. The collection also includes memoirs and biographies of the Confederate Leaders: Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee & Heros von Borcke. Finally, this collection is enriched with the most pivotal documents of the Confederate States. Contents: History of the Confederate States of America The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Memoirs & Biographies: Jefferson Davis by Frank H. Alfriend Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke Memoirs of Heros von Borcke Official Documents of the Confederate States: Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America Constitution of the Confederate States of America The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States South Carolina Ordinance of Secession Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union Mississippi Ordinance of Secession Florida Ordinance of Secession Alabama Ordinance of Secession Georgia Ordinance of Secession Louisiana Ordinance of Secession Texas Ordinance of Secession Arizona Territory Ordinance of Secession Virginia Ordinance of Secession Arkansas Ordinance of Secession North Carolina Ordinance of Secession Tennessee Ordinance of Secession Missouri Ordinance of Secession Kentucky Ordinance of Secession Dix-Hill Cartel Robert E. Lee's Letter Announcing Surrender ...

Author : Jeffery S. Prushankin
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Missouri
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1861-1865 by Jeffery S. Prushankin Pdf

If the Civil War had a "forgotten theater," it was the Trans-Mississippi West. Starting in 1861 with the Lincoln administration's desire to maintain control of the far west, Jeffery Prushankin covers battles in New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, including Pea Ridge in March 1862 and Pleasant Hill in April 1864. The Red River Expedition and Price's Raid are also described. The narrative places these campaigns and battles in their strategic context to show how they contributed to the outcome of the war.

Author : Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1604736062

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Civil War Mississippi: A Guide by Michael B. Ballard Pdf

Author : Edwin C. Bearss
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121162

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Rebel Victory at Vicksburg by Edwin C. Bearss Pdf

Originally published in 1963, Rebel Victory at Vicksburg by renowned American Civil War and World War II historian Edwin C. Bearss details the Confederate victory. Told with great power and imagery, this book will make an invaluable addition to any historian’s collection.

Author : Victoria E. Bynum
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 080789821X

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The Long Shadow of the Civil War by Victoria E. Bynum Pdf

The Long Shadow of the Civil War relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, Bynum's insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause.