{"id":7725,"date":"2010-06-27T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2012-03-25T17:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:18:17","slug":"the-free-state-of-jones-mississippis-longest-civil-war-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7725","title":{"rendered":"The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

H-Net Reviews<\/a>
\n2002-01-23<\/p>\n

Ethan S. Rafuse<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Military History
\nUnited States Military Academy<\/em><\/p>\n

Victoria E. Bynum.\u201cThe Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.\u00a0 Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.\u00a0 xvi + 316 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. (hardcover).\u00a0 ISBN 0-878-2636-7.<\/p>\n

Race, Gender, and the Contested Memory of the Free State of Jones<\/em><\/p>\n

In her new book, Victoria E. Bynum<\/a> demonstrates that our knowledge of Mississippi’s<\/a> legendary Free State of Jones<\/a>, like so much else associated with the Civil War<\/a> that has inspired contention and controversy, has been shaped as much by the agenda of those who have attempted to tell the story as by actual events.\u00a0 This much is known: in the fall of 1863, in the Piney Woods region of southern Mississippi, Confederate<\/a> deserters led by Newton Knight<\/a> organized an anti-Confederate guerrilla<\/a> band that eventually dominated its community and, according to legend, proclaimed Jones County’s independence from the Confederacy.\u00a0 To deal with the Jones County rebellion, Confederate authorities dispatched two cavalry expeditions into the region that launched devastating attacks upon, but were unable to completely quell, Knight’s band of deserters.\u00a0 After the war, members of the Knight Company participated in Reconstruction<\/a> politics and a mixed-race community emerged with Captain Knight as the focal point…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review] H-Net Reviews 2002-01-23 Ethan S. Rafuse, Associate Professor of Military History United States Military Academy Victoria E. Bynum.\u201cThe Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War\u201d.\u00a0 The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.\u00a0 Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,1459,20],"tags":[3194,3193,3036,20762,1456,3884,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-usa","tag-ethan-rafuse","tag-ethan-s-rafuse","tag-h-net-reviews","tag-mississippi","tag-newton-knight","tag-piney-woods","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}