by editor | Nov 27, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Civil War History Survives in An Unlikely Place It was 1861, the early days of what would come to be called the Civil War. Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was professor of mathematics and president of the College of William & Mary, positions that didn’t mean...
by editor | Nov 23, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Shirley Hallett was thinking a lot about her great-great-grandmother, Ellen Forbes, this Veterans Day. Forbes was a nurse in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and tended to wounded soldiers until she contracted malarial typhus and was sent back to her home in...
by editor | Nov 23, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Recent controversies surrounding Confederate monuments across North Carolina can be tied directly to a lack of understanding of the Civil War itself. The solution will require two things: Leadership and education. In the past, challenges in North Carolina have been...
by editor | Nov 20, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was not supposed to survive the wounds he received at the Second Battle of Petersburg in the summer of 1864. Felled by a bullet that entered his right hip, tore through his lower abdomen, and exited his left hip, both Chamberlain...
by editor | Nov 19, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
There are many reasons I pity today’s younger generation of Americans. Among them are: —The unconscionable debt we are leaving them. —The obliteration of male and female as separate and distinct categories — and the sexual confusion that is left in its wake....