News from Around the South 2/25 – 3/4
Alabama: Black Confederate Soldiers’ Stories Must Be Told HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An attempt to squelch a little known part of African American history gave Edwin Kennedy a bigger microphone than he ever imagined 13 years ago. At the time, he had just seen a...
News from Around the South
Tennessee: Sons of Confederate Veterans Protest KKK Rally The Sons of Confederate Veterans is retaliating against the Ku Klux Klan for planning a rally in Memphis against the renaming of three city parks, Fox 16 and WREG Memphis report. The KKK applied for a permit to...
News from Around the South 2/11 – 2/18
Virginia: USS Monitor Burials to be Interred at Arlington Cemetery RICHMOND, Va. — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8. In...
News from Around the South 1/21 – 1/28
South Carolina: Hunley Legend Altered by New Discovery For nearly 150 years, the story of the Hunley’s attack on the USS Housatonic has been Civil War legend. And it has been wrong. Scientists have discovered a piece of the Confederate submarine’s torpedo still...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan’s Island SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island during the Read More