by editor | Feb 22, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
You can’t go far in Northern Virginia without being reminded of the Civil War: The historical markers confront you near the Bailey’s Crossroads Old Navy and the Burger King by what was at one time Springfield Station; they’re at the O&E Railroad...
by editor | Feb 20, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
So, let’s imagine that in response to the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, the government, federal or state, strongly tightens control of firearms. And then what? No more shootings? No more Nikolas Cruzes and such like, taking out their personal malice on the...
by editor | Feb 20, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Civil War Museum Doesn’t Want State House Confederate Flag COLUMBIA, S.C. — The S.C. Confederate Relic Room commission reluctantly approved on Thursday a pared-down plan to display the Confederate flag that was removed in 2015 from the...
by editor | Feb 14, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
On February 13, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee and discussed his just-released “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community” report. That document synthesizes what U.S....
by editor | Feb 14, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
On a cold, rainy day in May 1862, a young Union soldier, Henry Alexander Scandrett, would experience his first battle. Unfortunately it would be a losing battle. His regiment, the 70th New York, joined the attack on Confederate lines at Fort Magruder, an earthen...