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...