The Jackson County War Blog

An American History blog focusing on the Reconstruction Era as experienced by the people of Jackson County, Florida.

Wednesday, December 07, 2022

The Jackson County War: now available in paperback

The University of Alabama Press released The Jackson County War as a paperback this month. It's also still available in hardback, ebook...

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Finding and Remembering Benjamin F. Livingston — Slave, Politician, Father to a Murdered Child

[Originally posted at bloodandoranges.com: March 29, 2013] A couple of years ago, while googling background on Jackson County politician B...

State of Florida v. B. A. Thrasher (1891): The Murder of Louis Witkovski and the Sensational Trial That Followed

Originally posted at bloodandoranges.com over several posts in 2013 On Dec. 11, 1889, Louis Witkovski, mayor of Starke, Florida, and somet...

The Lazy Redeemer: Paul Ortiz tackles William Watson Davis and the Mythmaker’s Myopia

[Originally posted at bloodandoranges.com : March 4, 2014] Anyone with a passing interest in Civil War and Reconstruction-era Florida soon...

Longstreet’s Last Laugh: Civil War Narratives, Robert E. Lee, and the “blood was up” idiom

[Originally posted at bloodandoranges.com, March 25, 2015] Warning: this essay has nothing to do with Florida. “Longstreet used to say that ...

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