News from Around the South 12/3-12/10

News from Around the South 12/3-12/10

by | Dec 10, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Union General Gets Civil War Historical Marker The Civil War was more than just a battlefield conflict. It affected nearly every aspect of people’s lives, but 90 percent of Georgia’s 1,000 Civil War markers were about battles and Confederate military leaders....
Mason-Dixon Line Showing its Age

Mason-Dixon Line Showing its Age

by | Oct 24, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Cultural and – more recently – political changes have shifted the traditional border between North and South One way and another, surveyors have left their mark on American history. George Washington started his career as one. Then came Charles Mason and Jeremiah...
Slave states vs. free states, 2012

Slave states vs. free states, 2012

by | Oct 15, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

A century-and-a-half later, we’ve come full circle: the red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines. Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy.  As clichéd as...