News from Around the South 12/16 to 12/23
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...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...News from Around the South 8/5 – 8/12
Virginia: Confederate Flag to be flown by I-95 A Confederate heritage group has announced plans to fly a Confederate Flag on I-95, the main highway running the length of the East Coast. The group Virginia Flaggers said that the Confederate Flag would be flown just...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...Obiter Dicta
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