Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-389) and index.
Contents:
The South's strangest soldier -- Corinth -- Home -- The swamp and the Citadel -- The hounds -- The Third Front -- Banners raised and lowered -- Reconstruction and redemption -- The family tree.
Summary:
In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight's life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South--and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union.
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