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SOUTH CAROLINA: Earthen Confederate Fortifications Visible in Charleston CHARLESTON – The earth mounds can turn up anywhere in the Lowcountry, it seems – odd-shaped crowns or crooked rows, a little too large and too strange to be natural. They are haunts...News From Around the South 2/2 to 2/9
SOUTH CAROLINA: Who Was Really Responsible for the Burning of Columbia? COLUMBIA, SC — The blaze that destroyed much of Columbia in 1865 is considered the seminal event in the history of South Carolina’s capital. But the debate over who’s responsible for the...News From Around the South 1/12 – 1/19
VIRGINIA: State to be Scene for New PBS Civil War Drama PBS appears to be discovering that drama happens on this side of the pond, too. After being wedded for so long to British-centric scripted series, including the mega-hit “Downton Abbey,”...News From Around the South 12/29 to 1/5
NORTH CAROLINA: Fort Fisher Marks 150th Anniversary with Events With this year marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, the Cape Fear region’s most notable Civil War strongholds—Fort Fisher and Fort Anderson—are celebrating the occasion with...News From Around the South 12/22 to 12/29
TENNESSEE: One of Andrew Jackson’s Prized Possessions Back at Hermitage Of all the tokens of appreciation governments sent him after the Battle of New Orleans, a small gold box, about the size of a deck of cards, was one of only five Jackson mentioned in his...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Revolutionary War battlefield named one of 11 endangered sites in the US. Here’s why A Revolutionary War battlefield in South Carolina has been named one of the Read More