[SampleMan]

There once was a time when many white and black southerners joined forces to defeat the Confederacy. It is too bad that too many Americans of all backgrounds do not know this under-reported tale of cooperation and goodwill for a noble end.

A bit of a stretch. People like Jones just wanted to be left alone, not defeat the Confederacy. "Kingdom of Jones" suggests coordination with the North, but there simply isn't any proof of that.

[Moose4]

That’s much the same reason that there was so much infighting in the more remote regions of the Appalachians; the people may have considered themselves Virginians or North Carolinians or Tennesseeans, but they didn’t have a lot in common with the aristocracy and the planters “down east” and didn’t feel like getting drafted and dying in “their” war.

}:-)4

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The interracial cooperation I alluded to was written about oin another book, Bitterly Divided by professor David Williams of Valdosta State in Georgia. This book tells of a Confederacy coming apart at the seams due to internal conflicts largely arousing from the avarice and hypocrisy of the pro-secession elite.