After a 50-year siege, the great strategic fortress of liberalism has fallen. With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the [...]
News From Around the South 10/8 to 10/15
TEXAS: SCV Proposes Specialty Confederate License Plates
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas’ agriculture commissioner says he will back a Confederate group’s [...]
Oct11
In April 1865, America was a different place from what it had been just four years before. Atlanta: burned. Richmond: burned. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: burned. Swaths of the South were scissored with trenches and abatis and pocked with shell holes. Washington, D.C., had become an army town, with barricades in the streets and more than 500 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Southern Cross of Honor
Over the last several months, on genealogical mailing lists to which I subscribe, I’ve seen discussions about “The Southern Cross of Honor.” Questions have arisen about its origin, when it was awarded, and what the [...]
App Puts Battlefield Maps at Fingertips
Just in time for the fall travel season, the American Battlefield Trust is deploying a smartphone app that will help heritage travelers explore the nation’s Civil War battlefields and understand the fighting that transpired [...]
