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Review: How an ex-slave and a Confederate hero joined forces during the Jim Crow era

BY ROLAND KLOSE St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 10, 2021 41 “A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South” by Ben Montgomery; Little Brown Spark (304 pages, $28) About 500 St. Louisans gathered in 1914 for the dedication of a Confederate memorial in Forest Park, where Bennett H. Young, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans Association, eulogized the “bravery” and “bitter determination” of the 600,000 Southern men who fought for a “cause they believed to be right.” Young, an apologist for the Confederacy, played a key role in littering the country with memorials to the “Lost Cause,” but, as in all things, his story is complicated.

How a freed slave triumphed over a White lynch mob in the Jim Crow South

A freed slave triumphed over a White lynch mob in the Jim Crow South

A freed slave triumphed over a White lynch mob in the Jim Crow South CNN 2/6/2021 By Faith Karimi, CNN © From Louisville Times An illustration of freed slave George Dinning, who later changed his last name to Denning. On the night of January 21, 1897, a mob of White men armed with pistols and shotguns surrounded the home of freed slave George Dinning in southern Kentucky. They falsely accused him of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm and unleashed a hail of bullets into his house, wounding him in the arm and forehead. Terrified for his wife and children, Dinning fired back, killing one of his assailants.

Ben Montgomery's 'A Shot in the Moonlight' an urgent piece of history | Books

Ben Montgomery's 'A Shot in the Moonlight' an urgent piece of history

Ben Montgomery’s ‘A Shot in the Moonlight’ an urgent piece of history Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Little, Brown Spark/TNS The cover of A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South by Ben Montgomery. A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South by Ben Montgomery; Little, Brown Spark (304 pages, $28) A Shot in the Moonlight tells an amazing, compelling true story that was long lost to history but that could not be more timely.