Creating an Irish Civil War Widow

by | Jul 31, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

On the 20th July 1864, the 33rd New Jersey Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland found themselves at Peachtree Creek, outside Atlanta. They were gathered on a hill some 300 yards in front of the main Union position acting as an outpost for their brigade. Their...

Here Come the Indian Mascot Killers

by | Jul 29, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Anyone who thinks the cultural left is going to stop its political correctness with the Washington Redskins isn’t reading USA Today. On the top of their Sports front page on July 22, the paper reported on activists taking a stand against “redface,”...

Confederates in the Basement

by | Jul 25, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

I hid Robert E. Lee in a basement utility closet. Along with a matching framed print of Stonewall Jackson and a large photo of the Confederate flag. My writers’ group was on the way over for our monthly meeting, which I’d offered to host last month at my parents’...
Day of the Hawk

Day of the Hawk

by | Jul 23, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was premeditated mass murder. Gadhafi was taking revenge for Reagan’s raid on Tripoli in 1986. The downing of KAL 007, flying from Anchorage to Seoul, was mass murder in the second degree. Seeing an aircraft intrude into...