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1 Guerrilla Wars 19 Plain Folk Resistance to the Confederacy 2 Occupied at Home 37 Women Confront Confederate Forces in North Carolina’s Quaker Belt Preface ix Introduction Kinship, Community, and Place in the Old and the New South 1 Contents Part I Home Front 15 3 Disordered Communities 59 Freedpeople, Poor Whites, and “Mixed Blood” Families in Reconstruction North Carolina 4 Fighting a Losing Battle 77 Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870–1900 Part II Reconstruction and Beyond 55 Part III Legacies 97 5 Civil War Unionists as New South Radicals 101 Mississippi and Texas, 1865–1920 6 Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Gender in Jim Crow Mississippi 117 The Women of the Knight Family Epilogue Fathers and Sons 137 Notes 149 Bibliography 187 Acknowledgments 207 Index 211 [44.197.251.102] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 03:55 GMT) Illustrations Sites of Three Inner Civil Wars in the Confederate South: North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas 6 Newt Knight 20 Family of Warren Jacob Collins 22 James Morgan Valentine 27 Caroline Hulin, widow of Jesse Hulin 50 Jasper J. Collins 115 Martha Ann Ainsworth 119 Family of Jeffrey and Mollie Knight 121 Anna Knight 128 Alzada Courtney 141 This page intentionally left blank ...