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On accounts suggesting or implying that the South won the war, see John Richard Dennett,
The South as It Is, 1865-1866
(1866; reprint,
New York: Compass Books, 1967); Albert T. Morgan,
Yazoo; or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South: A Personal Narrative
(1884; reprint, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000); John Roy Lynch,
The Facts of Reconstruction
(1913; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1968); W. E. B. Du Bois,
Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1861-1880
(New York: Russell and Russell, 1935); Eric Foner,
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
(New York: Harper and Row, 1988); Steven Hahn,
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003); Storey,
Loyalty and Loss;
Nicholas Lemann,
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); and especially Stephen Budiansky,
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
(New York: Viking, 2008).

On interracial romance and alliance in the South, see Harriet A. Jacobs,
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
, ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (1861; reprint, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987); Morgan,
Yazoo;
Eugene D. Genovese,
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
(New York: Vintage Books, 1974), pp. 413-31; Deborah Gray White,
Ar’n’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1985); Stephanie M. H. Camp,
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Thavolia Glymph,
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008); Catherine Clinton,
Tara Revisited: Women, War, and the Plantation Legend
(New York: Abbeville Press, 1995); Marie Jenkins Schwartz,
Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000); Virginia Elise Lemire,
“Miscegenation”: Making Race in America
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002); Annette Gordon-Reed,
The Hemingses of Monticello:
An American Family
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2008); David J. Libby et al., eds.,
Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion in Appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005); Randall Kennedy,
Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, and Adoption
(New York: Pantheon, 2003); Carl Plasa and Betty J. Ring, eds.,
The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison
(New York: Routledge, 1994); Martha Hodes, ed.,
Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North America
(New York: New York University Press, 1999); and Martha Hodes,
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

On the memory of the Civil War, see Hugh Tulloch,
The Debate on the American Civil War Era
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999); David W. Blight,
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001); Matthew J. Grow, “The Shadow of the Civil War: A Historiography of Civil War Memory,” in
American Nineteenth Century History
4:2 (Summer 2003): 77-103; Wolfgang Schivelbusch,
The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
(New York: Picador, 2004); Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, eds.,
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); W. Fitzhugh Brundage,
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005); David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., eds.,
Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain
(West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2007); and Gary W. Gallagher,
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

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Jenkins, Sally.
The state of Jones : the small southern county that seceded from the Confederacy / by
Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer. —1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Jones County (Miss.)—History—19th century. 2. Knight, Newton, ca. 1829-1922. 3. Unionists (United States Civil War)—Mississippi—Jones County. 4. Mississippi—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Social aspects. 5. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Social aspects. 6. Jones County (Miss.) —
Biography. I. Stauffer, John, 1965- II. Title.

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