The Civil War’s Last Death
PORTLAND, Maine — A Confederate rifle ball ripped through Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s pelvis at the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia in June 1864. It ruptured his bladder and severed his urethra. The bullet mangled his guts beyond repair — but it took 50...
Bill filed to Ban Confederate Flag
The confederate flag could soon be banned from all public buildings in South Carolina. York representative John King filed a bill this week that would prohibit the flag from being flown or displayed anywhere besides a museum or private property. In July 2015, the...
Trump Has Media Crying…All The Way To The Bank
Donald Trump’s tweet about the media’s being “the enemy of the American people” was a classic distraction — in this case, from questions swirling around his team’s troubling ties with our Russian adversaries. While the FBI, CIA and Senate...
News From Around The South 2/13 to 2/20
SOUTH CAROLINA: Secessionist Party Flies Confederate Flags in Downtown Charleston CHARLESTON, S.C. -The South Carolina Secessionist Party and the Carolina Flaggers are flying Confederate Flags across downtown Charleston. The groups are protesting the College of...
Women as Civil War Spies
Women of all backgrounds and political leanings engaged in espionage during the Civil War, but elite white women in the Union-occupied South found it especially appealing to utilize their ample opportunities to gather information from the occupying army and share it...Obiter Dicta
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: He died fighting for America’s independence at 14. He’s only just been identified Thirteen of America’s first ever veterans lie beneath a towering pine forest that was once Read More