Gary Ross · 2016 · overland

Gary Ross's 2016 film of a true Civil War rebellion. Sickened by the carnage and a law that spares the rich, Confederate medic Newton Knight deserts after the Second Battle of Corinth and carries his nephew's body home to Jones County. Hiding in the swamps with runaway slaves and deserters, he raises an armed company, defies the Confederacy, and raises the Union flag over Ellisville.

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   Corinth

   A battlefield medic in the Confederate army, Newton Knight watches men die at the Second Battle of Corinth for the sake of a slaveholders' cause - and, after his young nephew is killed, decides he is done with the war.

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   The Jones County swamps

   Deserting home to Jones County, hunted by Confederate patrols, Knight takes refuge deep in the Leaf River swamps, where escaped slaves and other runaway soldiers gather around him into an armed band.

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   Ellisville

   The Knight Company rises out of the swamp to overthrow the local Confederate authorities, raising the United States flag over the courthouse at Ellisville and declaring the defiant 'Free State of Jones.'