News from Around the South 5/12 – 5/19

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Civil War Ship Stolen by Slaved  Found The wreck of a ship once commandeered by slaves and sailed to freedom during the Civil War has very likely been found. The shipwrecked Planter almost certainly rests beneath 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5...

Southern Lit: Pickett's Charge

Charles McNair’s first novel, Land O’ Goshen, was published in 1994 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  McNair spent nearly two decades writing and rewriting his next book, Pickett’s Charge. Nominated for a 2014 Townsend Prize for...

Flag Dogs Boggs

WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s most beleaguered judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, finally got his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And it wasn’t pretty. One by one, for nearly two hours, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Boggs...

News from Around the South 5/5 – 5/12

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Confederate Groups Seek New Members ANDERSON, S.C. —  About 40 people gathered Saturday morning in front of the Anderson County Courthouse to observe Confederate Memorial Day. The annual event, staged by the Palmetto Sharpshooters...

News from Around the South 4/28 – 5/5

VIRGINIA: Archaeologists Map Civil War Cemetery LYNCHBURG, Va. — Four archaeologists stood among a 45-foot by 10-foot trench within “Yankee Square” at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg on Sunday afternoon. Using brooms and shovels, they uncovered a patchwork of...