Iconic Photo Questioned

by | Jun 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

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

Gettysburg and The New South

by | Jun 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

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...

News from Around the South 6/17 – 6/24

by | Jun 24, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: VMI Scene for new Civil War Movie about Battle of New Market The statue has mourned for more than a century. “Virginia Mourning Her Dead” symbolizes the losses the Virginia Military Institute suffered in the Battle of New Market. Soon, it won’t be the only...

Horses' Lives Retraced

by | Jun 19, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Life was rough for Civil War soldiers. It was even rougher on their horses. “They broke ’em younger, they rode ’em harder and they died younger,” re-enactor Mike Edwards said at Bennett Place State Historic Site on Saturday. The state historic site held “Join the...

Canada & the Civil War

by | Jun 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 haunts the United States to this day. Canadians also have an enduring fascination with the conflict that set state against state, community against community, family against family and killed around 750,000 Americans in the North...