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The post with the FREE BOOK attachment ONLY UNLOCKS for $5, $10+, $25 patrons on the Alabama Pioneers Patreon/Patron website. Type the words -…

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PATRONS -- DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE BOOK FROM THE PATREON/PATRON SITE NOW. All $5+, $10+. $25+ Alabama Pioneers PATRON members, (Family Researcher, Family Researcher Plus,…

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Part VIII Joel D. Murphree -Civil War letters

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JOEL MURPHREE OF TROY, ALABAMA 1864-1865 Introduction "by H. E. STERKX (Dr. Sterkx was a member of the…

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Blue Mountain in Calhoun County, Alabama was once a supply and training center for Confederate soldiers

Blue Mountain in Calhoun County, Alabama was once a supply and training center for Confederate soldiers. Blue Mountain is located in the northern suburbs…

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PATRON – Winston County, Alabama – Newspaper accounts from 1890 reveal much about politics in Alabama before & after the War Between the States

Winston County, Alabama's opposition to the Confederacy is briefly mentioned in the novels To Kill a Mockingbird   and Paper Moon: A Novel (formerly Addie Pray) Tap…

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PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (D – L counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1867

(Continued from A- C counties) ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were…

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UPDATED WITH PODCAST Mysterious, haunted mansion [pics and films] in Tuscaloosa has many historical connections

The beautiful Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is filled with mysteries such as a door that leads nowhere, deep underground tunnels, 2-foot…

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The Last Confederate Reunion in Alabama was held in September 1944 – all the men were in their 90s [see story & photographs]

(This has been exactly transcribed as written in 1944  in The Alabama Historical Quarterly) LAST CONFEDERATE REUNION What will probably prove to be the last…

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PATRON + Interesting Editorial from Alabama newspaper written in Alabama July 15, 1865 about the mindset of many in the South

(Excerpt transcribed from The Livingston Journal, July 15, 1865) The undertaking (of) the publication of a newspaper at this time, we are fully aware…