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The theme of this book may be unknown to many people, including those Civil War Battlefield junkies. The taking ['looting'] of Southern Civilians crops & livestock, by the Confederacy happened to thousands. This single act alone, turned many loyal Confederates against the Confederacy. CSA President Jefferson Davis tried to get the planter class - as well as everyone - to grow more crops to feed the army. Instead, most of the planters grew more cotton. When Confederate soldiers (under Gen. Earl van Dorn) tried to impress crops & live stock from the Planter class, the planters were outraged & complained to CSA President Jefferson Davis. Davis felt he was forced to protect the elite, upper-class planter class. The majority of the common people of the South, had to endure four years of starvation. At the outbreak of the war, approximately 200,000 Southern people from the upper-South joined the Union army, along with 100,000 from the lower-South. Adding to this 500,000 Slaves fled to the North during the war - 180,000 joining the Union Army & 20,000 joining the Union Navy. Forcing the Southern civilians to bear the brunt of the war, while the planter class acquired profits, further alienated Southerners. Situations such as The Free State of Jones, existed across the Confederacy. (Jackson Country, N.E.Alabama seceded from the Confederacy in 1864, as well as the "wire-grass region of S.E. Georgia).

Books such as 'The South vs The South' by William W. Freeling and 'Bitterly Divided, the South's Inner Civil War' by David Williams, are excellent book, which greatly elaborates this topic (and should be read by every student of the Civil War & history enthusiast). https://www.amazon.com/South-Vs-Anti-Confederate-Southerners-Shaped-ebook/dp/B004K6LHDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467040832&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Southern+vs+the+south
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The State of Jones The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy Sally Jenkins John Stauffer 9780385525930 Books Reviews

My Kentucky paternal ancestors fought for theConfederacy at Shiloh and Corinth and this caught my attention while I was reading more about the events of 1862 in the western theatre leading up to Vicksburg. This is a fascinating look at a slice of Mississippi history of which I was unaware. The book reads like a good novel but is non-fiction. Anyone interested in the era might enjoy this book — I sure did. Worth all five stars!
This another source for understanding the State of Jones. Sally Jenkins research gives an insight into the events that lead to armed resistance to conscription into Confederate Army and the conflict between the resisters and the Confederate Army's attempt to capture them. In some ways this book and the story of Jones County challenge the modern interpretation of the War of Northern Aggression.
Coincidentally I chose this of the 3 I bought to read first and it was a good choice. The authors explore the events leading up to the battles of Vicksburg and Corinth that brought about the draft that called up Knight and many of his friends and family.
The inept leadership from officers who had bought their commissions, marching them back and forth in endless, meaningless marches that exhausted them before any battles were engaged. And watching these officers living comfortably while the troops were forced to eat little but corn and fatback and to drink water from local streams that made them very sick.
Some of them were paroled after the surrender of Vicksburg but their oaths of honor to return home and not fight meant nothing to the officers of the Army of the Confederacy and they were forced back into service.
This book covers the tactics of both the Union and Confederate armies and the guerrilla war conducted behind the lines by the racially integrated battalions of the Free Men of Jones and is an excellent introduction to the story.The State of Jones The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
The story of the pro-Union guerrilla resistance organized by hard-scrabble dirt farmer Newton Knight in Jones County in southeastern Mississippi, a state which appears to have been the Wild West of the South. Despite his great success, at great cost, the story of Knight's doomed post-war struggle against the overwhelming pressures of the Southern Cause is heart-breaking. The aristocrats who pushed secession and war even over objections of counties like Jones County, which was overwhelmingly pro-Union. When the war ended, politics returned the self-annointed Southern aristocrats to power starting with President Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Southern Democrat successor who may have been pro-Union, but was unrelentingly racist. Congress seized control from Jonhson and kicked the rebels out, but Grant, of all people, returned them as a political trade-off. Then the Democrats, seeking to replace the Republicans in office, defanged and later removed the military occupiers, letting the ex-Confederates finish driving out and killing Republicans and blacks - who were often the same - and using state law to keep the black man down for another 100 years. Knight, who should've been a hero, was forced to withdraw to his farm, always armed against possible assassination. But while he rode during the Civil War with his Union guerrillas - so recognized by the North - he delivered amazing rear-area victories. Well-deserved recognition for a man little known whose story will be retold, in Hollywood fashion, in an upcoming Mathew McConaughey movie. Brilliant story, a genuine page-turner. Revealing in its view of life in the South, the attitude towards the aristocratic secessionists, and the success in achieving rebel goals after the war ended, among other things.
The theme of this book may be unknown to many people, including those Civil War Battlefield junkies. The taking ['looting'] of Southern Civilians crops & livestock, by the Confederacy happened to thousands. This single act alone, turned many loyal Confederates against the Confederacy. CSA President Jefferson Davis tried to get the planter class - as well as everyone - to grow more crops to feed the army. Instead, most of the planters grew more cotton. When Confederate soldiers (under Gen. Earl van Dorn) tried to impress crops & live stock from the Planter class, the planters were outraged & complained to CSA President Jefferson Davis. Davis felt he was forced to protect the elite, upper-class planter class. The majority of the common people of the South, had to endure four years of starvation. At the outbreak of the war, approximately 200,000 Southern people from the upper-South joined the Union army, along with 100,000 from the lower-South. Adding to this 500,000 Slaves fled to the North during the war - 180,000 joining the Union Army & 20,000 joining the Union Navy. Forcing the Southern civilians to bear the brunt of the war, while the planter class acquired profits, further alienated Southerners. Situations such as The Free State of Jones, existed across the Confederacy. (Jackson Country, N.E.Alabama seceded from the Confederacy in 1864, as well as the "wire-grass region of S.E. Georgia).

Books such as 'The South vs The South' by William W. Freeling and 'Bitterly Divided, the South's Inner Civil War' by David Williams, are excellent book, which greatly elaborates this topic (and should be read by every student of the Civil War & history enthusiast). https//www./South-Vs-Anti-Confederate-Southerners-Shaped-ebook/dp/B004K6LHDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467040832&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Southern+vs+the+south
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