The Civil War Forts on Mobile Bay The Battle of Mobile Bay was where Admiral Farragut was supposed to have made his famous statement,…
Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) WAR TIME FARMING, FOOD SUPPLIES Like the…
Did you know that Switzerland has a tourist destination called the Alabama Room? The Alabama Room is one of the most famous rooms in…
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…
An excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) SCHOOLS DURING THE WAR Our schools,…
Excerpt from The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama – Their Leaders and Their Work copyright 1896 – NOTE: This book contains many…
Many children had no parents left after the War Between the States ended. There were many orphans in Alabama after the War Between the…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935 Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 By…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) Part III HOME INDUSTRIES, SPINNING AND WEAVING Within a…
The people of Winston County, Alabama regretted that a majority of the delegates at the convention in Montgomery before the Civil War passed the…
Excerpt from The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama – Their Leaders and Their Work copyright 1896 – In this transcribed excerpt, a…
On July 1-3, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought during the Civil War. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the…
(Transcribed and unedited story from a WPA (Works Projects Administration - This house at 1256 O'Donnell Street in the historic district of Oakdale, Mobile,…
This Zeigler House1 (depicted in the photographs below) was built ca. 1825 is still standing in Elmore County, Alabama. The Zeigler family arrived in…
Southern Cadets in Action (This letter has been transcribed from The Century 1890 – Volume 39 – Harvard College Magazine Monthly) In his sketch…
Happy Birthday! CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIAM TOBIN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1827-aft. 1914) CLARKE COUNTY, ALABAMA Captain John William Tobin was born on April 21, 1827,…
All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS…
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write stories about life in the United States. The program…
TWO CONFEDERATE SURGEONS, NEGRO BODY GUARD AND A HORSE, JOURNEY FROM DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA TO COLLIRENE, LOWNDES COUNTY, > ALABAMA, ON FIFTY CENTS i…
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…
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