[Psycho_Bunny]

Interesting.....I seem to recall Ken Burns calling it "The Kingdom of Jones"....I always liked that.

I may be remembering it wrong, though.

[Jubal Madison]

“The Kingdom of Jones...”

I recall reading it called that in an old book I own. The account in the book was different than what was in the article - although it did agree that a lot of the citizens were disloyal to the Confederacy. To say they were pro - Union might be a stretch. My own uneducated guess is they just wanted to be left alone - a trait which survives in a lot of the rural south today.-—JM