News from Around the South 2/11 – 2/18

News from Around the South 2/11 – 2/18

by | 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...
The Fading of the Old South

The Fading of the Old South

by | Jan 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Politically speaking, we live by caricature. Particularly in the age of satellite TV news and Internet fulmination, the temptation is to melodrama. So I wasn’t terribly surprised to read a recent article in the online magazine Salon arguing that “even though it’s a...