Battle of Nashville at 150

NASHVILLE — There’s still a gouge cut into the slope of Shy’s Hill in Nashville where Confederate soldiers hunkered down in a trench 150 years ago. It was the last big battle in the western theater of the Civil War, and the place where the Union army broke...

News From Around the South 10/21 – 10/27

VIRGINIA: Museum Marches On Despite Confederate Flag  Danville’s inability to legally remove a Confederate flag from the lawn of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History is not stopping the museum’s new strategic plan and its upcoming sesquicentennial...

SEE The Civil War

Did you know that you can experience many of the same sights that civilians and soldiers would have encountered during the Civil War? Use this list to guide your visual experience of the War Between the States. Preserved Battlefields The Civil War was fought over four...

News From Around the South 8/11 to 8/18

  TENNESSEE: Professor Publishes Civil War Diary CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – On a cold night in February 1862, the moans and whimpers of injured Confederate soldiers filled the streets of Clarksville. Hospitals had been set up in local buildings to treat the wounded,...

News from Around the South 5/19-5/26

KENTUCKY: Honor for Civil War Battlefield We recently moved one step closer toward designating Mill Springs Battlefield a national park, thanks to Congressman Hal Rogers. Before the House passed H.R. 298, a bill to authorize a National Park Service study on including...