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...
New Civil War Titles
As the world becomes more connected through the Internet, it’s becoming easier for scholars to turn up new data about the Civil War, on which far more books have been written than about any other event in U.S. history. Libraries and museums are increasingly putting...Obiter Dicta
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses Read More
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