News From Around the South 4/15 – 4/22

by | Apr 22, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Mayor Praises Confederate Memorial Effort MARIETTA, Ga. — Members of the United Daughters of Confederacy Kennesaw Chapter were joined by a little over 50 others Sunday to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day. The family friendly event was held at the...

Surrender Anniversary

by | Apr 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The national capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond, Va., fell to the Union Army 148 years ago this month, after 10 months of bloody horror in the muddy bug-infested trenches around nearby Petersburg, Va., as the Union armies tightened their noose...
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...
News from Around the South 12/31 – 1/7

News from Around the South 12/31 – 1/7

by | 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...
Book Review

Book Review

by | Dec 22, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

“Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War,” Tony Horwitz. Picador, Henry Holt & Co. 365 pages. $18. Many Southerners have denied that the Civil War was fought over slavery, arguing that the war was really in defense of...