News from Around the South 6/17 – 6/24
Virginia: VMI Scene for new Civil War Movie about Battle of New Market The statue has mourned for more than a century. “Virginia Mourning Her Dead” symbolizes the losses the Virginia Military Institute suffered in the Battle of New Market. Soon, it won’t be the only...News from Around the South, 5/6 – 5/13
Mississippi: Civil War Letters Going Home JACKSON, Miss. — Richard Bridges seemed like a typical college student in his letters home. He tells family members he may need more money and clothes, talks about hanging out with friends and sounds a little homesick. But...News from Around the South, April 29 – May 6
Georgia: Petition Seeks to Remove Confederate Monument from Stone Mountain ATLANTA — Aunt Pittypat, don’t faint. A metro Atlanta resident has created an online petition calling for the removal of the Confederate monument from the face of Stone Mountain....
Was Civil War About Slavery?
In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High School just outside Asheboro. On Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexico’s defeat of French forces at the Battle...Obiter Dicta
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