Dixie Girls News
Sunday, August 7, 2011 Southern Women Southern-themed magazines and books proliferate on news stands, bursting with advice on how to brighten your home with Southern culture. Belk department stores have a new motto: "Modern. Southern. Style." As the meaning of "American" dissolves into the tepid meaninglessness of "multiculturalism," it's no wonder people are attracted to [...]
Mary Boykin Chesnut a Confederate heroine By Ned Harrison She was called the diarist, the grande dame, the confidante of the Civil War. She moved in the highest circles, and was personally acquainted with Varina Davis, wife of the president of the Confederacy. Mary Boykin Chesnut was all that and more: She brought the war [...]
Selma woman says Riley aide lied By Alvin Benn Montgomery Advertiser SELMA -- A Selma woman has accused Gov. Bob Riley's communications director of a "blatant, cold-blooded lie" for saying she has referred to herself as a "wizardess" with members of the governor's staff. "I am livid over Jeff Emerson's bald-faced lies," Godwin said Tuesday, [...]
Help sought to solve Civil War photo mystery Associated Press Monday, June 11, 2012 RICHMOND, Va. — The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading past the rouged cheeks of one, the other dressed [...]
Girls and Guns: Civilian Women and Firearms in the Confederate South Albany [GA] Patriot, April 18, 1861, p. 1, c. 4 Female Volunteers.--The Holly Spring Herald learns that the county of Chickasaw, Miss., has ten companies of volunteer soldiers ready to be mustered into the service of the State. It adds that, in addition to [...]
Confederate supporter up in arms March 1, 2005 By Alvin Benn Montgomery Advertiser SELMA -- A Selma woman known in Alabama for her support of the Confederacy and the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan wants to know who added "Wizardess" to her name in a Christmas card addressed to her from Gov. Bob [...]
Sally Tomkins was the Angel of the Confederacy By DAN DEARTH dan.dearth@herald-mail.com September 14, 2012 While Clara Barton treated the Union wounded on the battlefields of the Civil War, Sally Tomkins ran a hospital for the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. Marilyn Iglesias of Gloucester, Va., portrayed Tomkins on Friday during a re-enactment marking the 150th [...]
Female re-enactor's quest for realism crosses gender lines Sunday, June 25, 2006 KELLI HEWETT TAYLOR News staff writer Three years ago, Hoover native Whitney Hamilton found her calling fighting as a Confederate soldier. A male Confederate soldier. Hamilton, who graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., [...]
Defaced Confederate memorial is part of our history Monday, February 21, 2005 By SUSAN PAYNTER SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST We talk a lot in this town about diversity and embracing differences. On Presidents Day, before dashing for holiday markdowns at the mall, we may even rest a beat to reflect on our history. But if the [...]
St. Louis poet edits Confederate relative's diary September 20, 2012 BY JANE HENDERSON Post-Dispatch Book Editor jhenderson@post-dispatch.com Sarah Lois Wadley knew war was deteriorating when vultures weren't even hanging around to pick at soldiers' bodies. "A carcass may lie for days untouched," she wrote in June 1863. "Those creatures have gone eastward in search of [...]
