by editor | May 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Mississippi: Remembrance Set for Key Civil War Struggle CHAMPION HILL, Miss. — One hundred fifty years after the bloody, tide-turning Battle of Champion Hill, key in the Vicksburg Campaign, the loudest ruckus was a leaf blower. This site had served as Gen. Grant’s...
by editor | May 6, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Georgia: Petition Seeks to Remove Confederate Monument from Stone Mountain ATLANTA — Aunt Pittypat, don’t faint. A metro Atlanta resident has created an online petition calling for the removal of the Confederate monument from the face of Stone Mountain....
by editor | Apr 15, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Tenessee: Sons of Confederate Veterans Diss Memphis Over Parks Choice MEMPHIS — The Sons of Confederate Veterans International chose Richardson, Texas, over Memphis for its 2016 annual convention in part because of “negative publicity” over Memphis’...
by editor | Mar 4, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Black Confederate Soldiers’ Stories Must Be Told HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An attempt to squelch a little known part of African American history gave Edwin Kennedy a bigger microphone than he ever imagined 13 years ago. At the time, he had just seen a...
by editor | Jan 14, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: New Details Learned of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls HUNTSVILLE — Robert Smalls achieved so many amazing deeds during his life, it’s understandable why much of his heroic history is unknown, even to his descendants, Benjamin and Mary Smalls of...