News from Around the South 2/11 – 2/18
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...
News from Around the South 1/14 – 1/21
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...
News from Around the South 1/7 – 1/14
Alabama: New Details Learned of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls HUNTSVILLE — Robert Smalls achieved so many amazing deeds during his life, it’s understandable why much of his heroic history is unknown, even to his descendants, Benjamin and Mary Smalls of...
News from Around the South 12/31 – 1/7
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...Obiter Dicta
When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made Read More
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