News from Around the South 9/11 to 9/16

Alabama: Selma Moves Forward with Plans to Sell Confederate Circle SELMA, Ala. — The Selma City Council took a step toward solving a 136-year-old question of ownership Tuesday evening. The council voted 4-1 to begin the process of selling an acre of land in Old...

Marrow of Tragedy

Walt Whitman, who volunteered in military hospitals, knew the gruesomeness of the “real” Civil War firsthand. He described the war not as a glorious national crusade to defend the Union or to eradicate slavery, but rather as “an unending, universal mourning-wail of...

Civil War Medicine

Shauna Devine spoke at the National Library of Medicine on “The Civil War, the Army Medical Museum, and the Surgeon General’s Library: Medical Practice and the Science of American Medicine.” Dr. Devine also contributed to the NLM’s book Hidden Treasure. You can read...

News from Around the South 8/26 to 9/2

Tennessee: Fall Civil War Cruises Set CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After an unusually wet summer across the Southeast, everyone is looking forward to drier fall weather. Soon brilliant colors will decorate the mountains surrounding Chattanooga. The Tennessee River Gorge is a...