James W. Silver (1907-1988) was professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi, and Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Frontier General and editor (with John K. Bettersworth) of Mississippi in the Confederacy.
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