News From Around The South 10/18 to 10/25
TENNESSEE: U.S. Colored Troops Statue Unveiled in Downtown Franklin In November of 1899, a group gathered on Franklin’s town square. Thirty-five years after the end of the Civil War, the United Daughters of the Confederacy had raised the funds to build a Confederate...
Under Fire: A Gunner on USS Congress in the Battle of Hampton Roads
The fearsome Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack, aka Merrimac) materialized in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that calm and clear Saturday morning, March 8, 1862. “The ‘Merrimac’ was steaming slowly towards us,” recalled Seaman Frederick H. Curtis of the wooden...
Who Writes The Laws?
It is distressing for those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says to observe the destruction of liberty caused by vaccine mandates. On one side of this destruction are those whose opposition to vaccines finds comfort in the executive orders of...
News From Around the South, 10/11 to 10/18
FLORIDA: A Close Brush With History—UWF History Trust’s Black Politicians Exhibit It was recently announced in the last Emerging Civil War newsletter that I’ve taken on a part-time position with the University of West Florida’s Historic Trust in Pensacola, Florida. I...Obiter Dicta
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own Read More
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VIRGINIA: SCC commissioner, former NextEra attorney declines to recuse herself from merger case On Tuesday, Virginia lawmakers heard from utility regulation experts on the potential impact of the proposed merger Read More