by RIS Secure | Feb 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Virginia: USS Monitor Burials to be Interred at Arlington Cemetery RICHMOND, Va. — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8. In...
by RIS Secure | Jan 22, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Same-sex couples stood at government counters in two North Carolina cities on Monday to ask for marriage licenses they knew they would be denied, part of a push across the U.S. South this month to demand equality even...
by RIS Secure | Jan 21, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Florida: Re-Enactors Celebrate Battle, Camp Life The American Civil War was probably pretty difficult for all who took part. But with all the issues the soldiers and noncombatants faced in the 1860s, they didn’t have to worry about car alarms blaring. Union and...
by RIS Secure | Jan 8, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Re-enactors Set to Reprise Cedar Bluff Raid ROME — Cannons will blast, cavalry will charge and infantry men will storm the fields in Cedar Bluff, Ala. this May — when Civil War re-enactors come together to portray Union Col. Abel Streight’s 1863...
by RIS Secure | Dec 10, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Georgia: Union General Gets Civil War Historical Marker The Civil War was more than just a battlefield conflict. It affected nearly every aspect of people’s lives, but 90 percent of Georgia’s 1,000 Civil War markers were about battles and Confederate military leaders....