News from Around the South 3/11-3/18

News from Around the South 3/11-3/18

Virginia: Confederate Letters Reveal Personal Side of War “War is a dreadful thing to think of,” wrote Lt. Thomas Smith Taylor, who fought for the Confederate States of America at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and in other famous Civil War battles. Taylor...
Body Harder to Reset Than Clock

Body Harder to Reset Than Clock

You may have remembered to spring forward this past weekend, but your body clock is likely telling you that you’re at work this morning at 7 instead of 8. It also may be saying you’re eating lunch at 11 a.m. instead of noon and dinner at 5 p.m. rather than...
Civil War St. Patrick's Day

Civil War St. Patrick's Day

It was exactly five months before the deadly battle at Gettysburg, the scene of inestimable carnage, and it was St. Patrick’s Day in the little town of Falmouth, Va., which today just off Interstate 95 on the way to Richmond. Troops of the Irish Brigade were camped...
New Mind of South

New Mind of South

“The New Mind of the South” By Tracy Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 263 pps., $26. Whatever you think the South represents, it is Tracy Thompson’s contention that it’s morphing into something else. “The New Mind of the South” is her collection of essays on what a...
Who Speaks for GOP?

Who Speaks for GOP?

Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers. Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in...