by editor | Nov 23, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Recent controversies surrounding Confederate monuments across North Carolina can be tied directly to a lack of understanding of the Civil War itself. The solution will require two things: Leadership and education. In the past, challenges in North Carolina have been...
by editor | Nov 20, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was not supposed to survive the wounds he received at the Second Battle of Petersburg in the summer of 1864. Felled by a bullet that entered his right hip, tore through his lower abdomen, and exited his left hip, both Chamberlain...
by editor | Nov 19, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
There are many reasons I pity today’s younger generation of Americans. Among them are: —The unconscionable debt we are leaving them. —The obliteration of male and female as separate and distinct categories — and the sexual confusion that is left in its wake....
by editor | Nov 19, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TENNESSEE: Stones River Battlefield Delivers Civil War History NASHVILLE — “So this is the Battlefield, it really hasn’t changed much since 1862.” Stop, look, and listen. The cannons are quiet now, but the Civil War cemetery tells of a time...
by editor | Nov 15, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves during the Civil War, it did not apply to Kentucky, one of the few slave states that did not join the Confederacy. But Elijah P. Marrs did not want to wait. He escaped...
by editor | Nov 15, 2018 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The Democratic Party’s emerging radical bloc is alarming, but the leftist group’s youthful intemperance could backfire and re-energize Republicans’ 2020 electoral prospects. Even before all the hanging chads and miraculously divined ballots have been...