Was Civil War About Slavery?

Was Civil War About Slavery?

by | Mar 19, 2013 | Southern Partisan, Uncategorized

In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexico’s defeat of French forces at the Battle...
News from Around the South 3/11-3/18

News from Around the South 3/11-3/18

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Confederate Letters Reveal Personal Side of War “War is a dreadful thing to think of,” wrote Lt. Thomas Smith Taylor, who fought for the Confederate States of America at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and in other famous Civil War battles. Taylor...
Body Harder to Reset Than Clock

Body Harder to Reset Than Clock

by | Mar 15, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

You may have remembered to spring forward this past weekend, but your body clock is likely telling you that you’re at work this morning at 7 instead of 8. It also may be saying you’re eating lunch at 11 a.m. instead of noon and dinner at 5 p.m. rather than...
Civil War St. Patrick's Day

Civil War St. Patrick's Day

by | Mar 14, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It was exactly five months before the deadly battle at Gettysburg, the scene of inestimable carnage, and it was St. Patrick’s Day in the little town of Falmouth, Va., which today just off Interstate 95 on the way to Richmond. Troops of the Irish Brigade were camped...
New Mind of South

New Mind of South

by | Mar 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“The New Mind of the South” By Tracy Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 263 pps., $26. Whatever you think the South represents, it is Tracy Thompson’s contention that it’s morphing into something else. “The New Mind of the South” is her collection of essays on what a...