![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wherever they rose up, Confederates countered with deadly force. Many, in fact, hated the Confederacy with a passion, so much so that their backyards ran red with blood. Throughout the South, many put family, neighborhood, or religious and political beliefs ahead of secession. It’s often hard to imagine that many white southerners opposed secession and served only grudgingly in the Confederate Army, if at all. My books, The Free State of Jones, Unruly Women, and The Long Shadow of the Civil War, highlight such folks in the Mississippi Piney Woods, North Carolina Piedmont, and the “Big Thicket” region of Hardin County, Texas. Several kinds of renegades pass through the pages of my books and articles: Civil War Unionists and outlaws, multiracial people, unruly women, and political and religious nonconformists. Whether you are a historian or someone who just likes history, this blog was created with you in mind.Īs the blog’s title, Renegade South, suggests, I study southern dissenters of the nineteenth century. ( Montage courtesy of Sarah Steinbock-Pratt)Īs a historian who began digging into records and documents about ordinary and extraordinary people some thirty years ago, I’ve long wanted to share the history of those people with a broader audience. ![]()
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