by editor | Dec 16, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NASHVILLE — There’s still a gouge cut into the slope of Shy’s Hill in Nashville where Confederate soldiers hunkered down in a trench 150 years ago. It was the last big battle in the western theater of the Civil War, and the place where the Union army broke...
by editor | Nov 10, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan
MISSISSIPPI: State eyes Heritage Initiative Preserving Confederate, Colonel Reb Past By Steph Bazzle If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state religion, English the official language, and, according to its...
by editor | Oct 26, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan
A publisher once explained the First Law of Biography to novelist Nick Hornby: “They always increase in length, because the writer has to justify the need for a new one, and demonstrate that something previously undiscovered is being brought to the … party; and you...
by editor | Oct 26, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Museum Marches On Despite Confederate Flag Danville’s inability to legally remove a Confederate flag from the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is not stopping the museum’s new strategic plan and its upcoming sesquicentennial...
by editor | Oct 26, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan
It’s impossible to deny the compelling narrative the Civil War still weaves into the culture of the South. A visit to former battlegrounds and sites where the war played out offers the visitor a gateway into why the issue remains important. Often, there are tour...