An additional family member was exempted from service for each additional twenty slaves owned. This act allowed wealthy plantation owners to avoid military service if they owned twenty slaves or more. Newton Knight was a white farmer who opposed slavery and revolted against the Confederate forces in the course of the American civil war. However, many believe Knight's principal reason for desertion was his outrage over the Confederate government's passing of the Twenty Negro Law. Knight was enraged when he received word that Confederate authorities had seized his family's horse. Newton Knight (10 de noviembre de 1829 - 16 de febrero de 1922) fue un agricultor, soldado y unionista del sur estadounidense en Mississippi, más conocido como el líder de Knight Company, una banda de desertores del ejército confederado que resistió a la Confederación durante la Guerra Civil.
To be sure, party politics played an essential role in Newton's knight- hood. Another involved reports of poor conditions back home, as small farms deteriorated from neglect. Newton was a Unitarian in an age when that was heresy and when public.
One factor was the lack of food and supplies in the aftermath of the Siege of Corinth. Throughout the summer and fall of 1862, a number of factors prompted desertions by Jones Countians serving in the Confederate Army.
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