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Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Thousands chose the brush, guerrilla bands, or to seek out recruiters to join the Southern army. [7] Joseph C. Porter and John A. Poindexter's Confederate recruiting commands would immediately benefit from the order as Southern sympathizer flocked to their banners. In the meantime it would be several weeks before this newest Missouri militia ...
In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union during the Civil War . These people are also referred to as Southern Loyalists , Union Loyalists , [ 1 ] or Lincoln's Loyalists . [ 2 ]
Southern peace men were also prominent war opposition figures during the war. H.S. Foote of Tennessee was a strong supporter of the peace movement. In 1864, Foote resigned from the Confederate Congress and tried to make peace with Lincoln. C.C.S. Farrar, a wealthy Southern planter, was also a supporter of the peace movement.
In America, the image of the Vietnam War is shrouded in domestic counter-culture movements. But from a Vietnamese perspective, America was a third party in the midst of a civil war.
In "The Southernization of America," Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker see America as a whole adopting the politics of the segregated Jim Crow South. How America is becoming more Southern, and why ...
A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South (1949) Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South (1941) Cobb, James C. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity (2005) Fischer, D. H. Albion's seed: Four British folkways in America Oxford University Press 1989
Former Southern Partisan editor and co-owner Richard Quinn used the term when he referred to Richard T. Hines, former Southern Partisan contributor and Ronald Reagan administration staffer, as being "among the first neo-Confederates to resist efforts by the infidels to take down the Confederate flag." [3] An early use of the term came in 1954.