Battlefield Passovers

Battlefield Passovers

by | Mar 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It was April 24, 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, and in between his duties as an infantryman, young Isaac J. Levy sat down in camp on one of the intermediate days of Passover to write a short letter to his sister back home. Levy, who served in the 46th...
News From Around the South 3/18-3/25

News From Around the South 3/18-3/25

by | Mar 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Tennessee: Compromise Sought after Memphis Strikes Confederate Names from Parks MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Memphis officials are proposing a compromise after the City Council stripped Confederacy names from three city parks. Mayor A C Wharton and Councilman Jim Strickland...
War as Pop Culture

War as Pop Culture

by | Mar 22, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

War has a way of becoming romanticized. For each year that we remove ourselves from a conflict, it becomes something more and more glossed over and immortal. Iconic images from the past mix with our pop culture of today in a way that makes the war something noble (in...
California's Civil War

California's Civil War

by | Mar 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

LOS ANGELES — ABOUT 15 years ago, Ron Hyde was thumbing through a Civil War magazine when he came across an advertisement for a museum called Drum Barracks. “The ad said it was located in Wilmington, Calif.,” said Mr. Hyde, who lives in Norco, about 50 miles...
Surveying Emancipation

Surveying Emancipation

by | Mar 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 lent new urgency to the question of “what shall we do with the Negroes.” What had been only a possibility a few months before — the freeing of more than 3 million slaves still behind...