News From Around the South 11/3 – 11/10

MISSISSIPPI: State eyes Heritage Initiative Preserving Confederate, Colonel Reb Past By Steph Bazzle  If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state religion, English the official language, and, according to its...

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...

South's Best Civil War Battlegrounds

It’s impossible to deny the compelling narrative the Civil War still weaves into the culture of the South. A visit to former battlegrounds and sites where the war played out offers the visitor a gateway into why the issue remains important. Often, there are tour...

Civil War Monument Angers Writer

The eventful life of Civil War correspondent Lynde Walter Buckingham was cut short in Loudoun County as he encountered a group of “Mosby’s Rangers” one evening in June 1863. As he was riding to Washington to file his latest dispatch for the New York Herald, his horse...

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,...