News From Around The South 10/18 to 10/25
TENNESSEE: U.S. Colored Troops Statue Unveiled in Downtown Franklin In November of 1899, a group gathered on Franklin’s town square. Thirty-five years after the end of the Civil War, the United Daughters of the Confederacy had raised the funds to build a Confederate...
Under Fire: A Gunner on USS Congress in the Battle of Hampton Roads
The fearsome Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack, aka Merrimac) materialized in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that calm and clear Saturday morning, March 8, 1862. “The ‘Merrimac’ was steaming slowly towards us,” recalled Seaman Frederick H. Curtis of the wooden...
Who Writes The Laws?
It is distressing for those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says to observe the destruction of liberty caused by vaccine mandates. On one side of this destruction are those whose opposition to vaccines finds comfort in the executive orders of...
News From Around the South, 10/11 to 10/18
FLORIDA: A Close Brush With History—UWF History Trust’s Black Politicians Exhibit It was recently announced in the last Emerging Civil War newsletter that I’ve taken on a part-time position with the University of West Florida’s Historic Trust in Pensacola, Florida. I...
When Are Secrets Not Secret?
“Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Last week, President George W. Bush’s torture regime reared its head in an unusual argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2002, Abu Zubaydah was captured by...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: 26-mile Revolutionary War trail in SC will remember patriot path to Kings Mountain victory CHEROKEE COUNTY — A 26-mile section of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail in Read More