by RIS Secure | Apr 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The national capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond, Va., fell to the Union Army 148 years ago this month, after 10 months of bloody horror in the muddy bug-infested trenches around nearby Petersburg, Va., as the Union armies tightened their noose...
by RIS Secure | Apr 9, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The Civil War was fought in two critical arenas, the battlefield and the home front. Military battles generated the most drama, and usually receive the most attention. But ultimately the civilian struggle proved just as significant. The South was hit early, and hit...
by RIS Secure | Apr 8, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
North Carolina: Restored Confederate Flag Returned to Museum RALEIGH — A Confederate battle flag lost in the final months of the Civil War was handed over again Saturday – this time back into the collection of the N.C. Museum of History following a $6,500...
by RIS Secure | Apr 5, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
With April comes an annual dilemma in Louisiana: How do you reconcile the considerable Confederate and Civil War history commemorated in the state this month, and the tourism dollars rolling in as the conflict’s sesquicentennial unfolds, with the anguish of slavery...
by RIS Secure | Apr 1, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
North Carolina: Confederate Flag at old Capitol Draws Anger RALEIGH, N.C. — A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is raising concern with civil rights leaders. The flag was raised...