Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. III WILLIAM CALVIN OATES BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY GOVERNOR of…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama was in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War…
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(WARNING! This WPA interviewer made an attempt in this interview to capture the dialect of this former slave and may be offensive to readers…
When the building of steamboats was still in its infancy, one Alabamian built floating palaces, as fine and as fast as money could…
Excerpt transcribed from The Livingston Journal, Livingston, Alabama -August 5, 1865 CANDIDATE From a Correspondence in today's paper, it will be seen that Judge…
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There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South "The grave of…
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MUSTER ROLL, MONTGOMERY RIFLES, ARMY OF ALABAMA STATIONED AT PENSACOLA, 1861 Jos. B. Bibb Captain Wade Keyes 1st. Lieut. John J. Cook 2d Lieut.…
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Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS…
The following article appeared in the Alabama Beacon on March 28, 1868: “THE COURTHOUSE AT EUTAW DESTROYED BY FIRE Greene County has sustained a heavy…
All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS…
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![Thanksgiving was a Yankee holiday and not celebrated in Alabama until 1858 – here is why [vintage pictures]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Thanksgiving-print-1860s-Library-of-Congress-e1447604537444.jpg)
![Is this a photograph from the Titanic? [see film] No, it is one of many steamships built by an Alabama native before the Civil War](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/J.-M.-White-main-cabin-centre-220x287.jpg)
![There were many people against the Civil War in Alabama including Unionists in Montgomery, Alabama in 1861 [films]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/montgomery-harpers-weekly-1861-220x201.jpg)
![Alabama soldier rests on Secession Hill in Abbeville, South Carolina (music & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/secession-hill-marker-220x165.jpg)
