FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA CHAPTER FIVE by By HON. E. A. POWELL John C. Kirkland was a farmer of strong native sense, and…
(Many people in Alabama changed their views on slavery as this story reveals)The Alabama County of Calhoun was created by the legislature December 18,…
Below are four brigadier-generals who served in the Civil War for the Confederacy. We are publishing photographs of interest to researchers on Alabama Pioneers.…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VII 1 William H. Davis Pickens County William H. Davis was born in York…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) PART IV HOMESPUN CLOTHES, FASHIONS, DRESS We could not…
(Excerpts transcribed from Clayton Banner, Clayton, Barbour County, Alabama, March 21, 1861) NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS LETTERS of Administration having been granted to…
(Excerpts transcribed from Clayton Banner, Clayton, Barbour County, Alabama, March 21, 1861) ANNOUNCEMENTS WE are authorized to announce the name of JOHN COX as…
There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South "The grave of…
Happy Birthday! ALFRED PELHAM AGEE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1862-1937) Dallas, Monroe, and Calhoun county, Alabama Alfred Pelham Agee, a lawyer, was born on August…
On January 11, 1861, the Alabama Secession Convention passed an Ordinance of Secession, declaring Alabama a "Sovereign and Independent State." By a vote of…
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JOEL MURPHREE OF TROY, ALABAMA 1864-1865 Introduction "by H. E. STERKX (Dr. Sterkx was a member of the…
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JOEL MURPHREE OF TROY, ALABAMA 1864-1865 Introduction "by H. E. STERKX (Dr. Sterkx was a member of the…
ALONG THE CORDUROY ROAD The old home place stood among large oak trees at the top of a hill, more of a rise actually,…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing…
Dr. Joseph Dill Alison, the author of this diary was born December 23, 1828, at Charleston, S. C., and died at Carlowville, June 3,…
Carpetbagger is a term that was applied by native citizens of the South to those persons who came from other parts of the country…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III- Scroll to see Table of Contents of book …
Happy Birthday! WALTER KENNON McADORY Biography and Genealogy (b. 1868 Alabama d. Oct 19, 1963) Jefferson County, Alabama Walter Kennon McAdory, of Birmingham,…
The highest natural point in the State of Alabama, Cheaha Mountain, lies within the bounds of Cleburne County. Cleburne County was created by the…
Blue Mountain in Calhoun County, Alabama was once a supply and training center for Confederate soldiers. Blue Mountain is located in the northern suburbs…
(Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) The following facts and information concerning the boats on the Alabama river, that…
TO TUSCALOOSA AND BEYOND: A UNION CAVALRY RAIDER IN ALABAMA, MARCH-APRIL 1865 Edited by Edward G. Longacre (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
The majority of the population of Macon County, Alabama was African American in the 1880s when Lewis Adams, a former slave, was an important…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1854-1920) Tuscaloosa, Alabama Note: Follow the linked articles to see all the other connections this…
On April 12, 1865 the Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his command to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at…
There are many unidentified Confederate soldiers photographs at the State of Alabama Department of Archives and History. I'm including a few below to see…
Do you have additional information about these Confederate soldiers? Click on the link at the end to inform the Alabama Department of Archives and…
Happy Birthday! WATT THOMAS BROWN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1865-1940) St. Clair, Calhoun, Talladega & Shelby County, Alabama Watt Thomas Brown was president of the…
VIOLA EMILY ALLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (Oct 27, 1867 – May 9, 1948) Madison County, Alabama Viola Emily Allen, actress, was born on Oct…
(Below are some photographs with information I discovered while doing some research that might be beneficial to other researchers. Subscribe to the daily email…
![This Alabama County changed it’s name over the issue of slavery [Many settlers surnames included]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Dudley-Snow-House-704-Snow-Street-Oxford-Calhoun-County-Alabama-220x146.jpg)
![Alabama soldier rests on Secession Hill in Abbeville, South Carolina [video, music & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/secession-hill-marker-220x165.jpg)
![PATRON + First Confederate Provisional Congress was held in Montgomery in 1861 [see photographs, transcripts & names of participants]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/State-Capitol-Original-Senate-Chamber-from-the-Balcony-Montgomery-AL-2013-12-09-220x146.jpg)
![UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Gunpowder explodes in warehouse at Mobile and destroys half the town. [pictures & list of wounded soldiers]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/explosion-mobile-220x138.jpg)
