News from Around the South 10/28 to 11/4
Tennessee: Second Confederate Flag Stolen JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — One of five flagpoles at Oak Hill Cemetery in Johnson City is empty this week for the second time this month after someone stole the Confederate flag it bore. “It’s the second time in the last two...News from Around the South 10/7 to 10/14
Alabama: Owasco Civil War History Subject of Book OWASCO , Ala. — Local author Anthony Gero believes his latest work was a story that needed to be told. It’s the story of a young man who learns of his father’s history as a Civil War veteran. A story...News from Around the South 10/1 to 10/8
Tennessee: State Library Digitizing Civil War Relics CHATTANOOGA, Tenn — Tennessee residents are invited to bring their Civil War relics to the Chattanooga Convention Center this week for documentation. Continuing its “Looking Back: The Civil War in...The Civil War in One Chart
This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War. (Click on the image to arrive at a zoomable version, or visit the LOC’s website.) The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised...Obiter Dicta
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