jasper collins is another poor dirt farmer is really the term. jasper collins throws down his gun. that's it for me. i'm going home. i'm not fighting in this war. he's older than newton knight, when throws his gun too. he's done. he's finished. he deserts. several me go back and their wives are beginning to starve because there are no men to help them plow the fields or tend the livestock. in the meantime, the confederacy has also enacted a policy called tax in kind. tax i kind meant that the confederacy could come to your farm, take your horses, take your hogs, take your corn, take the cotton out of your field or take the fabric that your wife had stayed up all night working on at the loom, in some cases the confederacy officers would cut the cloth out of the loom that you've been weaving for your kids to wear. there was intense resentment not just by men who were conscripted in the army by their wives and children in counties like jones and so when you read about an abstraction called the confederacy and you read in your textbook about tax in kind and conscription. newton knight

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