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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…
ENOCH ALDREDGE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1807-1879) Blount County, Alabama Enoch Aldredge was born in Bledsoe county, Tennessee, in 1807, and came with his parents…
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…
Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between…
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.…
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) PART IV HOMESPUN CLOTHES, FASHIONS, DRESS We could not…
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…
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.…
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…
An excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS, FURLOUGHS. DESERTERS…
![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)
