by RIS Secure | Feb 8, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – The real “Mercy Street” depicted in the PBS Civil War drama ran down Fairfax Street in Old Town Alexandria, from the Mansion House Hospital to the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary. It was an easy walk for James Green and his family, whose...
by RIS Secure | Feb 7, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016? Our foreign policy elite’s answer appears to be a thunderous no. Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia. During the campaign Trump was...
by RIS Secure | Feb 6, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
FLORIDA: Battle of Townsend’s Plantation Returned to Renningers MOUNT DORA — Some people might not be surprised that black people served in the Civil War. They may have read about the war or have seen the movie, “Glory.” Or they may have heard the stories of...
by RIS Secure | Feb 2, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The little Episcopalian prayer book did not have the easiest journey to the Rev. Robert Alves’ private collection. “This one has actually been in the ocean,” says, Alves, holding up a leather-bound copy of the Confederate Book of Common Prayer. In...
by RIS Secure | Jan 31, 2017 | Archive, Southern Partisan
No one gets anywhere by trying to roll Donald Trump’s immigration order and its varied implications into a spitball for hurling hard and fast at the Other Side. That is not to split the difference, in namby-pamby fashion, between supporters of the present...