News From Around the South 2/23 to 3/2
SOUTH CAROLINA: Earthen Confederate Fortifications Visible in Charleston CHARLESTON – The earth mounds can turn up anywhere in the Lowcountry, it seems – odd-shaped crowns or crooked rows, a little too large and too strange to be natural. They are haunts...Intelligence-Gathering in the Civil War Era
By the early to mid-1800s, the world was coming into its own, with many nations having shaken off (or were in the process of shaking off) tyrants and monarchies. Governments and militaries were re-shaped and reformed, but the age-old art of intelligence...
Hollywood Hypocrites Demand Wage Equality
When actress Patricia Arquette won an Oscar, she pled for “wage equality” for women: “To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen in this nation: We have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage...
Confederate Gold in Lake Michigan?
FRANKFORT, MI — Sometime in the mid-1890s, a boxcar laden with gold bullion stolen from the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War was allegedly pushed off a ferry into the roiling waters of Lake Michigan during a storm. Today, it awaits discovery on the lake...Obiter Dicta
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