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BY ROLAND KLOSE St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 10, 2021
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“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.
JeffersonvilleKentuckyUnited-statesSimpson-countyFairviewOhio-riverWilliamo-bradleyJefferson-davisBennetth-youngAnthony-denningBen-montgomeryBennett-youngA 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.
LouisvilleKentuckyUnited-statesNew-yorkJeffersonvilleIndianaTampa-bayFloridaAlabamaNorth-carolinaGeorge-denningBen-montgomery-george-denningBen 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.
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