Matthew McConaughey seethes with righteous fury in “Free State of Jones,” a tale based on an intriguing, little-known chapter of Civil War history ... A native of Jones County, Miss., ...

And when it comes to the American Civil War -- 151 years after the ... His army of deserters and slaves took control of Jones County, Mississippi, declaring it a free state ...

An Eastern Mississippi ... slave owners — whose war it really was — were excused from conscription. One day in 1862, Newt had enough and went AWOL home to Jones County. That’s where he ...

In so many Civil War-era photographs ... In 1864, he managed to prevail over the Confederates in Jones County, Mississippi, and declare the county the Free State of Jones. That is highly promising ...

When the word emancipation turns up in the narrative titles of Free State of Jones, a new Civil War drama ... pro-Union insurrectionists in Jones County, Mississippi, and his life is tailor ...

Matthew McConaughey seethes with righteous fury in “Free State of Jones,” a tale based ... to fight against the South within Mississippi during the Civil War. Originally Published: June ...

Far be it from me to read political meanings into a Civil War movie, but “Free State of Jones” is enticingly ... McConaughey), a disillusioned Mississippi medic, learns that owners of 20 ...

Set during the Civil War, "Free State of Jones" tells ... Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones.

Newton Knight, the real-life figure behind Matthew McConaughey's Civil War drama "The Free State ... a Confederate medic and heading home to Jones County, Miss., to bury his kin in his native ...

An effort in Jones County, Mississippi ... story he wanted like to see the fountains relocated to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. He said some people argue the fountains ...