News from Around the South 6/24 – 7/1
Texas: Museum Features Gettysburg Artifacts CORSICANA — One hundred fifty years ago this week, the battle that changed the course of the Civil War took place far from Texas in Gettysburg, Penn. This Saturday, artifacts from the Battle of Gettysburg, including a...Why We Re-Enact the Civil War
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863” – William Faulkner in Intruder in The Dust BY CLINT JOHNSON Guest columnist Faulkner was...Union Generals' Flaws Rampant
I found myself repeating it like a mantra as I plowed through Diane Monroe Smith’s “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in the Army of the Potomac.” Fights, fisticuffs, even a murder; tale-telling, if not...Iconic Photo Questioned
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Photographer Alexander Gardner and his two colleagues, Timothy O’Sullivan and James Gibson, came upon a frightful landscape late on July 5, 1863. Soldiers of the Blue and Gray lay dead virtually everywhere, still littering a battlefield...
Gettysburg and The New South
RALEIGH – Next week Americans will be remembering the 150th anniversary of a defining moment in our country’s history, the Civil War battle at Gettysburg. The horrible losses there made the battlefield like a holy temple, a destination point for pilgrims. Fifty years...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