by editor | May 1, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Military Base Named After Robert E. Lee Redesignated FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Va. (WRIC)– The former Fort Lee army post has been renamed Fort Gregg-Adams after two black officers and trailblazers in United States Army history in a redesignation ceremony. Leaders...
by editor | Apr 26, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Shoot some more cheerleaders! America isn’t free yet! Yeah. That isn’t funny. It’s just that I don’t take shooting seriously. Not anymore. In case you missed the start of the joke, some guy in Texas shot two cheerleaders when one of them tried...
by editor | Apr 25, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
“You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war; is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it but didn’t?” wrote Mark Twain in his semi-fictionalized wartime account, titled “The Private...
by editor | Apr 24, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TENNESSEE: White Lawmakers Speak Out for Insurrection in Honoring Confederate History The ghost of the Confederacy hangs heavily over the Tennessee Legislature. Justin Jones, one of two Black members expelled from the state’s House of Representatives in April 2023,...
by editor | Apr 20, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The arrest last week of 21-year-old air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira on charges of espionage has sparked a debate in the intelligence community and elsewhere about whether his behavior is criminal or heroic. He apparently shared top-secret intelligence and...
by editor | Apr 19, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan
On April 14, 1861 the Confederate States of America began their occupation of Fort Sumter, following their victory over Major Robert Anderson’s US Army garrison. Eight enslaved carpenters and nine enslaved laborers also arrived at Fort Sumter on April 14. Their...