News from Around the South 7/29 – 8/5

Georgia: Brown’s Mill Battlefield Celebrates Grand Opening NEWNAN, Ga. — History came alive last week when more than 350 people came to take in the sights at the grand opening of the Brown’s Mill Battlefield Civil War Historic Site located south of Newnan...

Heroes and Memory

When I first arrived in America a few years ago, one of the first things I noticed was the road name, Jefferson Davis Highway. For a moment, I wondered whether I was trapped in the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A: the Confederate States of America, where the South had won the...

News from Around the South 7/22 – 7/29

  Virginia: Confederate Marine Re-enactors Join Appomattox Show APPOMATTOX, Va. — Friday evening’s wind blew, catching the Confederate Marine flag at the head of a recreated Civil War campsite and whipping it about. The six tents surrounding the flag were...

CSA Gravesites Costlier

On June 19, an array of top government officials gathered for the unveiling of a statue of Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century African-American man born a slave who rose to be a vice-presidential candidate. That politicians and the federal government continue to...

News from Around the South 7/15 – 7/22

South Carolina: ‘Glory’ Battle, Soldiers Remembered SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Civil War re-enactors gathered on a wind-swept beach and marked the 150th anniversary Thursday of the famed attack by the black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry — a...