News From Around the South 8/25 – 9/1
TEXAS: State Looks to Superme Court to Block Confederate License Plates AUSTIN — The legal sparring between Texas and supporters of a Confederate battle flag license plate has rumbled into its fifth year, even longer than the Civil War. In the latest volley, the...News from Around the South 8/18 – 8/25
TENNESSEE: ‘Morgan’s Men Return to Greenville’ GREENVILLE, Tenn — Exactly 150 years ago on Sept. 4, 1864, dashing, controversial Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan and his cavalrymen rode into Greeneville from the east. It was a visit fraught...
Race-Based Justice
Among the demands of the “protesters” in Ferguson is that the investigation and prosecution of police officer Darren Wilson be taken away from St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. McCulloch is biased, it is said. How so? In 1964, his father, a St....Civil War Monument Angers Writer
The eventful life of Civil War correspondent Lynde Walter Buckingham was cut short in Loudoun County as he encountered a group of “Mosby’s Rangers” one evening in June 1863. As he was riding to Washington to file his latest dispatch for the New York Herald, his horse...News From Around the South 8/11 to 8/18
TENNESSEE: Professor Publishes Civil War Diary CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – On a cold night in February 1862, the moans and whimpers of injured Confederate soldiers filled the streets of Clarksville. Hospitals had been set up in local buildings to treat the wounded,...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More