by editor | Dec 10, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Major General William Rosecrans, leader of the Union’s Army of the Cumberland, had a problem. “Old Rosy,” as he’d been nicknamed at West Point, was a handsome Ohio-born history buff and hobbyist inventor with a reputation for getting nearer to combat than any other...
by editor | Dec 3, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Virginia: Old Point Comfort Landmark Razed in Civil War Sacrifice HAMPTON, Va. — One hundred fifty years ago this week, the U.S Army at Fort Monroe demolished one of Hampton Roads’ largest and best known landmarks. Opened at Old Point Comfort in 1822 to...
by editor | Nov 26, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
This year’s Civil War sesquicentennial commemorations have highlighted the theme of emancipation, and appropriately so: Lincoln’s promulgation of his Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863 was a watershed event. But if we cast our eyes back to African American...
by editor | Nov 25, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Tennessee: Confederate Soldier Receives Posthumous Medal of Honor James Breathed, a doctor who served as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, has been posthumously awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Only 48...
by editor | Nov 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Tennessee: Businessman acquires piece of battlefield land FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Battlefield preservationists will raze a former coin-operated car wash on the corner of Columbia Avenue and Fairground Street to make way for less than half an acre of greenspace to...