Click here to see the paperback version of Alabama Footprints Confrontation is on sale for $5.49 (List price $12.97) just in time for Christmas…
(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…
(Below are some photographs with information I discovered while doing some research that might be beneficial to other researchers. Subscribe to the daily email…
More old photographs discovered of Confederate veterans. These have been identified. Sign up for our Daily Email of recent posts at the bottom of this…
Happy Birthday! HON. FELIX EDWARD BLACKBURN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1867-1937) Perry and Jefferson County, Alabama Hon. Felix Edward Blackburn, attorney-at-law, Birmingham, Alabama was born…
(TRANSCRIBED FROM The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 02, No. 03, Fall Issue 1940) RECOLLECTIONS OF WILLIAM L. YANCEY By Joel Barnett (The letter reproduced…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! THOMAS PINCKNEY JOHNSTON BIOGRAHPY and GENEALOGY (1869-1926) Coosa, Elmore and Talladega County, Alabama Thomas Pinckney Johnston was a popular mayor of the…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM PRONCY ACKER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1868-1928) Cherokee and Calhoun County, Alabama William Proncy Acker was a lawyer, legislator and banker. He…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM M. ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1867-1923) Jefferson County, Alabama William M. Anderson was a Baptist minister. He was born August 17,…
While doing research for stories, I frequently run across many photographs of people, (identified and unidentified) including the Confederate veterans below which may be of interest…
Happy Birthday! JEFFERSON DAVIS GAFFORD BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1861 - 1904) Butler and Pike county, Alabama Jefferson Davis Gafford was for twenty years…
Legend states that during the year 1862 when the Civil War was being fought, many people buried their gold for safekeeping in Shipp's Pond. …
Happy Birthday! REV. NATHAN ASHBY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1810-1887) Monroe and Montgomery County, Alabama Ashby, Rev. Nathan, of Montgomery, was born in Fredericksburg, Va., August 5, 1810.…
Happy Birthday! ROBERT PRICE HEACOCK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-aft. 1904) Talladega County, Alabama Robert Price Heacock, was a contractor and builder, Sylacauga. He…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! JUDGE DANIEL ARTHUR GREENE, BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY) (1863 AL d. 1923 AL) Jefferson and Lee County, Alabama Judge Daniel Arthur Greene, of…
Happy Birthday! ALFRED PELHAM AGEE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1862-1937) Dallas, Monroe, and Calhoun county, Alabama Alfred Pelham Agee, lawyer, was born August 6, 1862.…
Happy Birthday! JOHN CRAWFORD ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1863-1940) Greene, Marengo and Montgomery County, Alabama John Crawford Anderson, lawyer, circuit judge and chief justice…
Happy Birthday! MICHAEL CODY, JR. (b. 1862 - aft. 1900) BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY BARBOUR and MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALABAMA Michael Cody Jr., president of the…
In 1844, there was a disagreement about the center of Cherokee County [see film] HUGH CARDON'S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY ALABAMA1 Part VII In…
Happy Birthday! SHACK ELBERT JEMISON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-aft. 1904) Talladega County, Alabama Shack Elbert Jemison was a planter and one of the largest…
Happy Birthday! JOHN COLEMAN CARMICHAEL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-1930) Jefferson County, Alabama John Coleman Carmichael of Birmingham, Ala was chancellor of the northwestern division…
JOSIAH GORGAS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1883) Bibb and Tuscaloosa, Alabama Josiah Gorgas was born July 1, 1818, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was graduated…
Patron+ member story -Click …/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. TERRIBLE TORNADO (From the Talladega Mountain, Home) Transcribed from…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VIII1 Henry Mitchell Gay Randolph County A son of Gilbert Gay, he was born…
![UPDATED WITH PODCAST -BIOGRAPHY: [rare 1898 video] Dr. William Crawford Gorgas born October 3, 1854 – photograph](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Copy-of-ets-toast-to-International-Beer-Day-4-640x309.jpg)
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