by editor | Mar 11, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Virginia: Civil War Sailors Buried ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad’s turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried Friday at Arlington...
by editor | 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 editor | 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 editor | 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 editor | 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...