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An Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) HOME MADE LUXURIES AND NECESSITIES MEDICINES…
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The CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company.…
WILSON'S RAID AND OTHER RECITAL 1 Recording A Persistent, But Unavailing Attempt To Capture At Montgomery In 1865, Mr. Duncan Blue Graham, Treasurer, And…
Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) WAR TIME FARMING, FOOD SUPPLIES Like the…
An Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming)1 When the Civil War was going…
PATRON + First American ship ever sunk by a submarine was built in Mobile, Alabama On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine Hunley sunk…
An excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) SCHOOLS DURING THE WAR Our schools,…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) PART V THE END OF THE WAR Of course,…
Interesting news article from the Daily State Sentinel (Montgomery, Alabama) April 13, 1868 The oldest woman in Alabama is Mrs. Sallie Samson, living in…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935 Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 By…
THE SINKING OF THE ALABAMA By ALFRED IVERSON BRANHAM (Interview was conducted about 1885 in Sunny Side, Georgia and printed in the Atlanta Constitution…
The people of Winston County, Alabama regretted that a majority of the delegates at the convention in Montgomery before the Civil War passed the…
PATRON + A true incident from Reconstruction Days in Greensboro, Alabama that reveals the difficulties during that time. An incident from Reconstruction Days in…
Southern Cadets in Action (This letter has been transcribed from The Century 1890 – Volume 39 – Harvard College Magazine Monthly) In his sketch…
This sad story has been transcribed from Greenville Advocate (Greenville, Alabama May 2, 1867 Accidental Poisoning A very unfortunate case of sudden death from…
THE FACE IN THE WINDOW CARROLLTON, PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA Carrollton is the county seat of Pickens County, in the central part of the county…
REV. J. R. CAPERS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1822 – aft. 1896) Jefferson County, Alabama, Oklahoma Territory Rev. J. R. Capers of Elyton (since gone to…
After the Civil War in 1866, scouts from the North were sent by the Federal Government to the South to retrieve Union soldiers' bodies…
TWO CONFEDERATE SURGEONS, NEGRO BODY GUARD AND A HORSE, JOURNEY FROM DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA TO COLLIRENE, LOWNDES COUNTY, > ALABAMA, ON FIFTY CENTS i…
Francis M. “Franc” Paul established the Chattanooga Daily Rebel in August 1862, after the town’s two newspapers had merged, then suspended publication earlier that year. "The Rebel was…
Happy Birthday! JOSEPH OSWALT THOMPSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1869-1933) Macon and Jefferson County, Alabama Joseph Oswalt Thompson was a planter, colonizer, and federal office…
Happy Birthday! EDWARD BUIST ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1868-aft. 1940) Madison and Marion County, Alabama Edward Buist Anderson was born February 1, 1868, the…
This transcription of a news article was published in April 18, 1866, edition of the Union Springs' Times, Bullock County, Alabama. It reveals the…
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,…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable & Some Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol VII in EBook, Paperback & Hardcover format WILLIAM…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V WALTER KENNON McADORY Biography and Genealogy (b. 1868 Alabama…
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…
![PATRON – CSS Alabama’s last fight by Captain Kell -written in 1885 [see film & pics]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/USS_Kearsarge_CSS_Alabama-220x142.jpg)
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![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)
