News from Around the South 4/28 – 5/5

VIRGINIA: Archaeologists Map Civil War Cemetery LYNCHBURG, Va. — Four archaeologists stood among a 45-foot by 10-foot trench within “Yankee Square” at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg on Sunday afternoon. Using brooms and shovels, they uncovered a patchwork of...

Death and Despair: Civil War Prisons

MILLEN, Ga. — John Charles Tarsney crossed the prisoner of war camp and spied an emaciated Union soldier to whom he had given a drink of water the evening before. “He had died during the night and was little more than a dead skeleton,” Tarsney later...

In Defense of Southern Charm

Southern Charm has been a target of public criticism and anger in Charleston before it even aired a single episode on Bravo. Although a good amount of locals say the show doesn’t matter to them or they refuse to watch, it is easy to find fresh coverage with either a...

Whither Southern Nationalism?

This short address by self-proclaimed Southern Nationalist and League of the South member, Harold Crews, came across my YouTube feed this morning. It’s actually quite interesting. Crews’s argument is straightforward: As a member of the SCV he fully supports the goal...

News from Around the South 4/21 – 4/28

GEORGIA: Groups Remember Ancestors at Confederate Cemetery MARIETTA — Beneath large shade trees and in the midst of thousands of Confederate flags perched near tombstones Sunday, the Daughters of Confederate Veterans on Confederate Memorial Day honored their ancestors...