by editor | Jun 27, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
I found myself repeating it like a mantra as I plowed through Diane Monroe Smith’s “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in the Army of the Potomac.” Fights, fisticuffs, even a murder; tale-telling, if not...
by editor | Jun 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Photographer Alexander Gardner and his two colleagues, Timothy O’Sullivan and James Gibson, came upon a frightful landscape late on July 5, 1863. Soldiers of the Blue and Gray lay dead virtually everywhere, still littering a battlefield...
by editor | Jun 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
RALEIGH – Next week Americans will be remembering the 150th anniversary of a defining moment in our country’s history, the Civil War battle at Gettysburg. The horrible losses there made the battlefield like a holy temple, a destination point for pilgrims. Fifty years...
by editor | Jun 24, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Virginia: VMI Scene for new Civil War Movie about Battle of New Market The statue has mourned for more than a century. “Virginia Mourning Her Dead” symbolizes the losses the Virginia Military Institute suffered in the Battle of New Market. Soon, it won’t be the only...
by editor | Jun 19, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Life was rough for Civil War soldiers. It was even rougher on their horses. “They broke ’em younger, they rode ’em harder and they died younger,” re-enactor Mike Edwards said at Bennett Place State Historic Site on Saturday. The state historic site held “Join the...