News from Around the South 5/19-5/26

by | May 26, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

KENTUCKY: Honor for Civil War Battlefield We recently moved one step closer toward designating Mill Springs Battlefield a national park, thanks to Congressman Hal Rogers. Before the House passed H.R. 298, a bill to authorize a National Park Service study on including...

News from Around the South 5/12 – 5/19

by | May 19, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Civil War Ship Stolen by Slaved  Found The wreck of a ship once commandeered by slaves and sailed to freedom during the Civil War has very likely been found. The shipwrecked Planter almost certainly rests beneath 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5...

Southern Lit: Pickett's Charge

by | May 16, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Charles McNair’s first novel, Land O’ Goshen, was published in 1994 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  McNair spent nearly two decades writing and rewriting his next book, Pickett’s Charge. Nominated for a 2014 Townsend Prize for...

Flag Dogs Boggs

by | May 15, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s most beleaguered judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, finally got his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And it wasn’t pretty. One by one, for nearly two hours, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Boggs...