News From Around the South 11/3 – 11/10

MISSISSIPPI: State eyes Heritage Initiative Preserving Confederate, Colonel Reb Past By Steph Bazzle  If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state religion, English the official language, and, according to its...

Creating an Irish Civil War Widow

On the 20th July 1864, the 33rd New Jersey Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland found themselves at Peachtree Creek, outside Atlanta. They were gathered on a hill some 300 yards in front of the main Union position acting as an outpost for their brigade. Their...

Flag Dogs Boggs

WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s most beleaguered judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, finally got his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And it wasn’t pretty. One by one, for nearly two hours, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Boggs...