News from Around the South 5/5 – 5/12

by | May 12, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Groups Seek New Members ANDERSON, S.C. —  About 40 people gathered Saturday morning in front of the Anderson County Courthouse to observe Confederate Memorial Day. The annual event, staged by the Palmetto Sharpshooters...
Grotesque

Grotesque

by | May 8, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“Grotesque.” That’s what the Simon Wiesenthal Center called the assignment given to eighth-grade students in Rialto, Calif., to research and write an argumentative essay about whether the Holocaust actually happened or was “merely a political...

News from Around the South 4/28 – 5/5

by | May 6, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

VIRGINIA: Archaeologists Map Civil War Cemetery LYNCHBURG, Va. — Four archaeologists stood among a 45-foot by 10-foot trench within “Yankee Square” at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg on Sunday afternoon. Using brooms and shovels, they uncovered a patchwork of...

Death and Despair: Civil War Prisons

by | May 6, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

MILLEN, Ga. — John Charles Tarsney crossed the prisoner of war camp and spied an emaciated Union soldier to whom he had given a drink of water the evening before. “He had died during the night and was little more than a dead skeleton,” Tarsney later...

In Defense of Southern Charm

by | May 2, 2014 | Southern Partisan

Southern Charm has been a target of public criticism and anger in Charleston before it even aired a single episode on Bravo. Although a good amount of locals say the show doesn’t matter to them or they refuse to watch, it is easy to find fresh coverage with either a...