by RIS Secure | Sep 10, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Walt Whitman, who volunteered in military hospitals, knew the gruesomeness of the “real” Civil War firsthand. He described the war not as a glorious national crusade to defend the Union or to eradicate slavery, but rather as “an unending, universal mourning-wail of...
by RIS Secure | Sep 9, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Georgia: Chickamauga Battlefield Prepares for 150th Anniversary CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — You won’t have to be a Civil War buff to appreciate the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Its coming up on September 14th and 15th, and the National Park...
by RIS Secure | Sep 6, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
ALBEMARLE, N.C. — Are secret documents dating back to the Civil War buried in a mine in Stanly County? The Stanly County Museum and Stanly County Historical Society gave local residents an opportunity to hear of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the...
by RIS Secure | Sep 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Barack Obama ran for president as the last of the red-hot pacifists, so it might have sounded preposterous to predict that after a few security briefings at the White House, President Obama would follow in the same policy footsteps of horrid warmonger George Bush,...
by RIS Secure | Sep 4, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Shauna Devine spoke at the National Library of Medicine on “The Civil War, the Army Medical Museum, and the Surgeon General’s Library: Medical Practice and the Science of American Medicine.” Dr. Devine also contributed to the NLM’s book Hidden Treasure. You can read...