On June 19, 1864 The CSS Alabama, captained by Mobile’s Raphael Semmes, was sunk at the end of a fierce naval engagement with the…
During the War Between the States, men who volunteered for service from the South had to furnish their own clothing and equipment while in…
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…
MOBILE PARK'S IRON DEER IS SURVIVOR OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES By Benjamin D. Baker Alabama Writers' Program Works Project Administration Council Chamber,…
This transcription of a news article was published in April 18, 1866, edition of the Union Springs' Times, Bullock County, Alabama. It reveals the…
In the story Native Americans fought on both sides of the Civil War , only the five Native American tribes were mentioned. The Catawba Indians have often…
(Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December12, 1918) CONTRAST RED CROSS OF 1918 AND HORRORS OF CIVIL WAR TIMES Survivors of 1861 Battles…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XIII 1 Hasting E. Owens Henry County Hastings E. Owens was born September 8.…
My Relatives are leaving me very fast (Civil) war-time letters of James Wright to his nephew. Edited by George L. Mahoney1 James Wright of…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XV 1 Thomas Tipton Smith Henry County A native of Tennessee, Thomas Tipton Smith…
Tuscaloosa was not united (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XIV 1 Henry C. Sanford Cherokee County A son of Hezekiah P. and Priscilla…
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1840 – 1935), or Cudjo Lewis, was the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the…
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 XII 1 John M. McClannahan Shelby County Nothing is known about the early life…
Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part X 1 Robert Jemison Tuscaloosa County A lawyer, businessman, legislator and leader of the…
(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 produce. He…
Patron- Names of Alabama Legislature and Senate members during the War Between the States year 1864 Patron Member story (Excerpt transcribed from The Claiborne…
News clipping from The Livingston Journal, Livingston, Alabama -August 5, 1865 The Grand Masters of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Alabama…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) PART IV HOMESPUN CLOTHES, FASHIONS, DRESS We could not…
Thirty Unionists in Montgomery In the small city of Montgomery, Alabama of some ten thousand people, around 1861, there were approximately thirty who were…
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! (Excerpt transcribed from The Claiborne Southerner, Claiborne, Alabama, September 16, 1864) RELIGIOUS NOTICE The Rev. Mr.…
CLARKE COUNTY SALT WORKS A Discussion of the Salt Mountain Operation By DR. T. J. KROUSE, i Suggsville Prepared for the Clarke County centennial…
There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South "The grave of…
Narrative of Former Slave Charlie Aarons, Oak Grove, Mobile, Alabama. Written August 6, 1937 (Born in Slavery, Library of Congress) This is the copy…
MUSTER ROLL of Captain D. S. Troy's Infantry Company of the 1st Bat. Hillards Legion Alabama Volunteers in the service of the Confederate States…
MUSTER ROLL, MONTGOMERY RIFLES, ARMY OF ALABAMA STATIONED AT PENSACOLA, 1861 Jos. B. Bibb Captain Wade Keyes 1st. Lieut. John J. Cook 2d Lieut.…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
![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-e1447604537444-220x159.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)
![PATRON + There were many people against the Civil War in Alabama including these 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 [video, music & photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/secession-hill-marker-220x165.jpg)
