The Savage Civil War
Americans have a perhaps understandable tendency to romanticize the Civil War, a four-year “Iliad” that remade the nation at the cost of at least 750,000 lives. Its effects still echo through our present-day controversies over the legacy of slavery, the display of...
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VIRGINIA: Civil War History Tucked Away in Shoeboxes The opening line still hurts across the years. “Dear Mother — I am here a prisoner of war & mortally wounded.” John Winn Moseley was writing home from the Gettysburg battlefield on July 4, 1863. He was a...
The Civil War’s Unlikely Genius
History never remembers who the quartermasters were: That was Nathanael Greene’s retort when George Washington pressed on him the job of quartermaster of the Continental Army in 1778. And though Greene yielded to Washington’s plea, he was right. Despite doing a...
The Left’s Vision
The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair. Have they never read Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” more than two and a half centuries ago? What about economic...
News From Around the South 10/24 to 10/31
CALIFORNIA: ‘Racist’ Halloween Decorations? LOS ANGELES — Some in the community of Wagon Wheel are worried about the message sent by decorations that appeared overnight in the neighborhood, while others say it is merely a “Texas Chain Saw...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