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…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V Now in EBook, Paperback and Hardback - Great gift!…
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…
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…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI WILLIAM ANTHONY ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1837-1914) Mobile, Alabama…
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…
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