Gone With the Wind at 75

by | Sep 30, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

As its 75th anniversary approaches, “Gone With the Wind” is again being celebrated as a timeless movie classic. But now, even the film’s distributor acknowledges the Civil War epic’s portrayal of slavery is dated and inaccurate. “Gone With the...

SEE The Civil War

by | Sep 25, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Did you know that you can experience many of the same sights that civilians and soldiers would have encountered during the Civil War? Use this list to guide your visual experience of the War Between the States. Preserved Battlefields The Civil War was fought over four...

Civil War Monument Angers Writer

by | Aug 21, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The eventful life of Civil War correspondent Lynde Walter Buckingham was cut short in Loudoun County as he encountered a group of “Mosby’s Rangers” one evening in June 1863. As he was riding to Washington to file his latest dispatch for the New York Herald, his horse...

News From Around the South 8/11 to 8/18

by | Aug 19, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

  TENNESSEE: Professor Publishes Civil War Diary CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – On a cold night in February 1862, the moans and whimpers of injured Confederate soldiers filled the streets of Clarksville. Hospitals had been set up in local buildings to treat the wounded,...

Creating an Irish Civil War Widow

by | Jul 31, 2014 | Archive, Southern Partisan

On the 20th July 1864, the 33rd New Jersey Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland found themselves at Peachtree Creek, outside Atlanta. They were gathered on a hill some 300 yards in front of the main Union position acting as an outpost for their brigade. Their...