VA headstone policy wrong
CLEVELAND, Ohio – If Ira Cook had died today, chances are there’d be no problem getting a headstone for him from the Memorial Affairs Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides that service for all U.S. veterans. But Cook, a black Union Army...News from Around the South 9/2 – 9/9
Georgia: Chickamauga Battlefield Prepares for 150th Anniversary CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — You won’t have to be a Civil War buff to appreciate the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Its coming up on September 14th and 15th, and the National Park...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...Lost Cause Free Trade
The French classical economist Frédéric Bastiat once remarked, “when goods do not cross borders, armies will.” Democratic Senator James Hammond of South Carolina infamously agreed with those sentiments on March 4, 1858, nearly eight years after Bastiat’s death. In a...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: He died fighting for America’s independence at 14. He’s only just been identified Thirteen of America’s first ever veterans lie beneath a towering pine forest that was once Read More