News from Around the South 12/16 to 12/23

by | Dec 23, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

FLORIDA: School District Will Rename High School Named for KKK leader JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Following a petition drive that garnered more than 160,000 signatures, a Florida school district will rename a high school whose current name commemorates a Confederate...

A Strange Cargo

by | 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...

Appomattox and Black Freedom

by | 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...

News from Around the South 11/18-11/25

by | 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...