re: The Free State of Jones?

The movie previews make it look like Jones led a black militia. In reality there were a few blacks with him but it was overwhelmingly whites who backed him.

Also Jones County had poor soil and agriculture was extremely limited therefore there were not many slaves or black people in Jones County.

He did have an long running extramarital affair with a black lady and fathered many children with her.

Jones' second in command was a white guy who hated the Confederacy and named his son Sherman Ulysses. During reconstruction I bet this kid would have traded places with "A boy named Sue".