JULY 15, 1865:
Newton Knight, leader of the “Kingdom of
Jones,” the virulently pro-Union Jones County, Mississippi, writes to William
Sharkey, the Provisional Governor of his State:
We Stood firm to the
union when secession Swept as an avalanche over the state. For this cause alone
we have been treated as savages instead of freeman by the rebel authorities.
Though
the war is, for all intents and purposes over, Newt Knight and his “Southern
Yankee” Knight Company ride into Smith County to emancipate by force several
hundred black children still being held in slavery.
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