![]() ![]() ![]() “It was almost like a chess game between white guys,” Ross says. One thing that bothered him in other Civil War films was the tendency to sanitize the event. Writer-director Gary Ross-whose previous films include Pleasantville (1998) and Seabiscuit (2003)-saw the story as an opportunity to present core truths about the Civil War. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University in San Marcos, whose 2001 book published by the University of North Carolina Press, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, helped inspire the movie. The medic and later captain of the deserters is Newton Knight, played by Matthew McConaughey.Īnd that sympathetic-looking nurse? She is Victoria E. These images are from the movie Free State of Jones, which opened in theaters the weekend of June 24. In time, the medic-a farmer who resides in Jones County, Mississippi-decides that he no longer wishes to fight a “rich man’s war.” Not an owner of slaves himself, he forsakes the Confederate army and is made the leader of a group of more than one hundred deserters, who battle back the Confederacy in Jones County. A sympathetic-looking nurse stands over an amputee while reading verses from the Bible. An army medic helps a fallen soldier to a tent to receive care. Row upon row of marching Confederate soldiers-their expressions weary, their beards scraggly-approach a line of Union soldiers. The time is October 1862 the place, Corinth, Mississippi. ![]()
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