by RIS Secure | Nov 1, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Language discrepancies naturally arise in different geographic regions, like the raging “pop” vs. “soda” debate. But the South undoubtedly takes the cake. Conversations south of the Mason-Dixon line will befuddle anyone not born there. We chose 15 of the most...
by RIS Secure | Oct 16, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Alabama: Owasco Civil War History Subject of Book OWASCO , Ala. — Local author Anthony Gero believes his latest work was a story that needed to be told. It’s the story of a young man who learns of his father’s history as a Civil War veteran. A story...
by RIS Secure | Oct 8, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Tennessee: State Library Digitizing Civil War Relics CHATTANOOGA, Tenn — Tennessee residents are invited to bring their Civil War relics to the Chattanooga Convention Center this week for documentation. Continuing its “Looking Back: The Civil War in...
by RIS Secure | Oct 1, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
IT’S BEEN SPOTTED on license plates in Atlantic City and Collingdale, draped across a truck in a Kohl’s parking lot and flying on poles outside homes in Montgomery and Chester counties. You can see it on the side of a building off Aramingo Avenue in Port...
by RIS Secure | Sep 24, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan
This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War. (Click on the image to arrive at a zoomable version, or visit the LOC’s website.) The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised...