HILLCOUNTRY
WARRIORS
THE CIVIL WAR SOUTH
SELDOM SEEN BY AMERICANS
Johnny Neil Smith
The events, people, and incidents in this story are the sole product of the author’s imagination. The story is fictional and any resemblance to individuals living or dead is purely coincidental.
© 2006 by Johnny Neil Smith. All rights reserved.
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Smith, Johnny Neil, 1939-
Hillcountry warriors: the Civil War South seldom seen / Johnny Neil Smith.
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ISBN: 0-86534-247-4 (hardcover)
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1. Southern States—History—Civil War, 1861 -1865—Fiction.
2. Mississippi—History—Civil War, 1861 -1865—Fiction.
3. State rights—History—19th century—Fiction. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
Many people, when thinking about the Ante-Bellum American South, view it as a land of plantations, columned mansions, slave holders, harsh overseers and a society that supported slavery as an institution that was both moral and necessary to maintain the economy. But this is not a totally correct summation. True, slavery helped promote and strengthen the financial system of the South, but many Southerners did not own slaves nor did they have any desire to support this so-called “peculiar institution.” So it was with many of the pioneers who settled the hillcountry of east central Mississippi.
These early settlers were living
