VA headstone policy wrong

by | Sep 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

CLEVELAND, Ohio – If Ira Cook had died today, chances are there’d be no problem getting a headstone for him from the Memorial Affairs Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides that service for all U.S. veterans. But Cook, a black Union Army...
Road to Damascus

Road to Damascus

by | Sep 11, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Some things you just have to do, in spite of great uncertainty. Launching missiles at Syria isn’t one of them. Many pundits talk about going to war as if all we have to do is make up our minds about what “ought” to happen — who the bad guys are — and...

Marrow of Tragedy

by | Sep 10, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Walt Whitman, who volunteered in military hospitals, knew the gruesomeness of the “real” Civil War firsthand. He described the war not as a glorious national crusade to defend the Union or to eradicate slavery, but rather as “an unending, universal mourning-wail of...

News from Around the South 9/2 – 9/9

by | Sep 9, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Chickamauga Battlefield Prepares for 150th Anniversary CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — You won’t have to be a Civil War buff to appreciate the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Its coming up on September 14th and 15th, and the National Park...
Buried Secrets of the CSA

Buried Secrets of the CSA

by | Sep 6, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

ALBEMARLE, N.C.  — Are secret documents dating back to the Civil War buried in a mine in Stanly County? The Stanly County Museum and Stanly County Historical Society gave local residents an opportunity to hear of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the...