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Names of Insurance agents, Lawyers and Court Notice in Mobile in 1840

(Transcribed from the Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) CHARLESTON INSURANCE & TRUST CO. Capital 1,000,000 of Dollars all --- ca The…

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UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Gunpowder explodes in warehouse at Mobile and destroys half the town. [pictures & list of wounded soldiers]

On April 12, 1865 the Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his command to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at…