News from Around the South 5/21 – 5/27

by | May 28, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Appomattox Cannons Receive Attention APPOMATTOX, Va. — Two Civil War-era cannons in Appomattox Court House Square are the focal point of countless photos of tourists taking turns posing with them. Last week, the cannons received attention of a different sort...

News from Around the South 5/13 – 5/20

by | May 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Mississippi: Remembrance Set for Key Civil War Struggle CHAMPION HILL, Miss. — One hundred fifty years after the bloody, tide-turning Battle of Champion Hill, key in the Vicksburg Campaign, the loudest ruckus was a leaf blower. This site had served as Gen. Grant’s...

Civil War CSI

by | May 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Legendary Confederate fighter Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died 150 years ago but the actual cause of his death has been a subject of debate. And it was again at the 20th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference in Maryland. Jackson got the...

Gettysburg's Grip

by | May 16, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In a few weeks, an estimated 4 million visitors are expected to descend upon the picturesque southern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, which has a population of less than 8,000. They’re coming by the millions to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of...

News from Around the South, 5/6 – 5/13

by | May 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Mississippi: Civil War Letters Going Home JACKSON, Miss. — Richard Bridges seemed like a typical college student in his letters home. He tells family members he may need more money and clothes, talks about hanging out with friends and sounds a little homesick. But...