News from Around the South 9/20-9/26

by | Sep 26, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Kennessaw Group Brings to Light Cobb’s Civil War Roots By H.M. Cauley, for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution As historians, researchers and interested readers of Civil War lore will confirm, Cobb County has a wealth of connections to the conflict. For...
Book Review

Book Review

by | Sep 24, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“WE HAVE THE WAR UPON US: THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR, NOVEMBER 1860-APRIL 1861” By William J. Cooper, Knopf ($30). Blaming “Inflexible” Lincoln Misleading, Wrong More than 150 years after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, historians...
I Like Gary Johnson

I Like Gary Johnson

by | Sep 21, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

All political candidates call themselves freedom-lovers, but they are not. Neither major party really opposes government control of the economy or of our personal lives. I’m a libertarian because I see the false choice offered by political left and right:...
How Antietam Changed America

How Antietam Changed America

by | Sep 19, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

It was the bloodiest day in America’s bloodiest war: September 17, 1862. Shortly after dawn, Confederate troops spied hazy blue figures emerging from a fog-enshrouded cornfield outside Sharpsburg, Maryland, and unleashed an artillery storm that mowed down dozens of...
News from Around the South 9/12-9/19

News from Around the South 9/12-9/19

by | Sep 19, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Alabama: Bedford statue still stirs controversy BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Racist, murderer, or savior of the town? Nathan Bedford Forrest still stirs controversy in Selma, Alabama, where emotions are running high over plans to replace a monument honoring...