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The Journal of Mississippi History Board of Editors EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Elbert R. Hilliard, Department of Archives and History EDITOR Kenneth McCarty, University of Southern Mississippi EDITOR EMERITUS John E. Gonzales, University of Southern Mississippi ASSISTANT EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Frank Allen Dennis Christine Wilson Troy State University Department of Archives and History BIBLIOGRAPHICAL EDITOR GENEALOGICAL EDITOR Brenda M. Eagles Sandra Boyd Oxford Department of Archives and History BOOK REVIEW EDITOR NEWS AND NOTICES EDITOR Robert L. Jenkins Martha Swain Mississippi State University Mississippi State University VOLUME LX 1998 The Journal of Mississippi History is published quarterly by the Mississippi Historical Society in cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. CONTENTS OF VOLUME LX Lost Chance to Save Vicksburg by Clay Williams.5 Reconstructing the Gulf South’s Colonial Past: Progress in Recovering the History of the British West Florida Colony, 1763-1783 by James Patterson Smith.21 “Out of the Mud”: The Good Roads Crusade and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Mississippi by Corey T. Lesseig.51 Recent Manuscript Accessions at Mississippi College and University Libraries compiled by Brenda Eagles.73 A Bibliography of Dissertations Relating to Mississippi—1998 compiled by Brenda Eagles.75 Faulkner’s South: Is There Truth in Fiction? by Louis Ferleger and Richard H. Steckel.105 General Dahlgren Leads His Family Home by Herschel Gower.123 Haller Nutt: A Correction by Alma K. Carpenter.147 Mississippi 1500-1800: A Review by Jon Kukla.155 “The State is on Trial”: Governor Edmund F. Noel and the Defense of Mississippi’s Legal Institutions Against Mob Violence by Lawrence Edward Right.191 Grady McWhiney’s “Antebellum Piney Woods Culture”: the Non-Celtic Origins of Greene County, Mississippi by Cherilyn A. Walley.223 The Mary Buie Museum, Oxford, Mississippi, as a WPA Community Art Center, 1939-1942 by Bonnie J. Krause.241 Program of the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society by John D. W. Guice.255 Transactions of the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society by Elbert R. Hilliard.259 Hernando De Soto Money: War Advocate and Anti- Imperialist, 1898-1900 by Leonard Schlup.315 Kidnapped and Sold in Natchez: The Ordeal of Aaron Cooper, a Free Black Man by Todd Herring.341 The Mississippi Movement: A Review Essay by Alan Draper.355 Book Reviews. 81,161, 279, 369 Publications Relating to Mississippi. 159, 367 Historical News and Notices 101,185, 309, 395