Free State of Jones Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. The region of MS that Jones County is located in
  2. 5. If you owned 20 slaves, you did not have to fight in the war
  3. 8. Finally put down the Jones County defiance
  4. 10. Newt Knight's great-grandson who went to court for interracial marriage
  5. 11. Newt Knight's first wife
  6. 13. Knight's escaped slave friend from the movie
  7. 15. Who Jones County was named after
  8. 17. Jones County's temporary name after the Civil War
  9. 18. What Captain Wirt Thomson reported flew over the Ellisville courthouse
  10. 19. The county that Jones County separated from
  11. 22. The home McLemore was shot in
  12. 23. Confederate tax that allowed the Army to take what they wanted from families
Down
  1. 1. Newt Knight's denomination
  2. 2. Jones County's nickname
  3. 3. Ellisville's temporary name after the Civil War
  4. 4. Rounded up Confederate deserters
  5. 5. Percent of enslaved population in Jones County at the time of the Civil War
  6. 6. Location of Newt Knight's swamp hangout
  7. 7. The city won by the Free State of Jones from the Confederates
  8. 9. Where Newt Knight settled with his family after the war
  9. 12. Knight's second wife
  10. 14. Ran Jones County soldiers out of the swamps
  11. 16. John Paul Jones claim to fame
  12. 20. Believed to have shot McLemore
  13. 21. Horn The object that the women used to notify Knight that the Confederates had come to take their food