Gary Ross -- writer-director of 'The Free State of Jones' -- says that until about 10 years ago he didn't know that during the Civil War AWOL Confederate soldier Newton Knight, together with other whites and escaped slaves, took control of part of Jones County Mississippi and declared it an independent state.

 

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