They Swore an Oath to Defend This Country
News From Around the South 7/9 to 7/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Tentative Memorial Designed for Emanuel Nine Victims
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A member of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church [...]
In recent years, the Confederate monument has gained a new level of symbolism, as the item at the center of an ongoing debate — one that reaches far beyond the subject of monuments — about how and whether a nation should remember the darkest moments of its past. Statues to those who fought for the Confederacy have been brought down in numerous cities […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Female Militia Guarded Georgia Hometown
Nancy Hill Morgan, captain of the Nancy Hart Militia. (Credit: Troup County Archives, LaGrange, GA)
Like countless other women of the Civil War, the wives, sisters and sweethearts of LaGrange, Georgia watched the majority of [...]
J.E.B. Stuart and the Great ‘What If’
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee flanked by Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart. (Library of Congress)
In his sculpted image on Monument Avenue in Richmond, a leafy boulevard hemmed by stately residences, J.E.B. Stuart is immortalized on horseback.
The [...]