Although the Civil War mostly gets credit for the fight to end slavery and reshaping the American federal goverment, the war has another, often overlooked legacy—starting a new era in […]
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Civil War Medicine in Savannah
Many are thankful for the often quick relief of modern day medicine, but most don’t take heed to its gruesome origins.
Currently on display at the Massie Heritage Center is a Civil War Medicine and Pharmaceutical exhibition that displays what it was like to receive medical treatment in the 18-19th centuries.
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Editor’s Note: Statues and statistics
In most polls, including a few from what you might call left-leaning organizations such as NPR, the percentage of total respondents who support fully removing Confederate monuments only runs about 27-33 percent.
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Raising the CSS Georgia
THOUGH THE Confederate Navy was massively outnumbered in the Civil War, they equaled the odds a bit through the use of major technological breakthroughs —some of which reverberated through the […]
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Editor’s Note: Grey ghosts
In my road trips through the Carolinas and Georgia, I’m struck by how the small towns have become depopulated zombie wastelands. It’s a silent disaster. The old Main Streets of the old Confederacy are mostly boarded up.
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I sing a song of the South, but I ain’t whistlin’ Dixie
I figured I was absolved from the past’s persistent evils, as though I could line dance and swill bourbon with the South’s fun-loving side and tiptoe away when it gets all blackout drunk and waves its guns around. I think that changed forever last week.
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Fighting Irish
It’s hard to visualize this during St. Patrick’s Day week in Savannah, but the Irish in America didn’t always have a strong sense of ethnic pride. “Irish identity in the […]
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‘A small story within the big story’
A little–known fact about the Civil War: About 7,000 Union soldiers were Jewish, and as many as 3,000 took up arms for the Confederacy. Ken Burns hasn’t made a 10–hour […]
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Secession impressions
I GUESS I’M SUPPOSED to be upset that this weekend the Sons of Confederate Veterans will hold a “Secession Ball” in Charleston — complete with hoop skirts and a band […]