Alabama Archives and History | Digital Alabama https://digitalalabama.com Your Not So Ordinary Guide To Alabama Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:20:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-15249-32x32.gif Alabama Archives and History | Digital Alabama https://digitalalabama.com 32 32 Remlap Alabama Dashes /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/remlap-alabama-dashes/16766 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:48:17 +0000 /?p=16766 Remlap Alabama Community Health Good on Sept 18, 1913

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]]> THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE: Chapter 1 /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/three-years-in-the-confederate-service/three-years-in-the-confederate-service-chapter-1/21660 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:59:27 +0000 /?p=21660 Fresh beef was hauled off and buried by the wagon load; barrels of corned beef remained untouched in the camp; while rice, flour, molasses and sugar were issued in larger quantities than could possibly be eaten. These were the last days of the “ Flush times of the First Alabama.”

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]]> History of Clarke County by John Simpson Graham /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/history-of-clarke-county-by-john-simpson-graham/21256 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:02:10 +0000 /?p=21256 History of Clarke County by John Simpson Graham

It is the purpose of the author of this book to write a history devoted almost exclusively to Clarke County Alabama and its people.

Birmingham printing Company, 1923
345 pages

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]]> Bullock County History by Benjamin Franklin Riley /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/bullock-county-history-by-benjamin-franklin-riley/39976 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:50:11 +0000 /?p=39976 Established in 1866, the county took its name from Colonel E. C. Bullock, of Eufaula. It is located in a region which enables it to command all the conditions favorable to prosperity.

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]]> THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE: Chapter IV /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/three-years-in-the-confederate-service/three-years-in-the-confederate-service-chapter-iv/21950 Mon, 18 May 2020 01:09:14 +0000 /?p=21950 The city, even then, bore marks of the havoc of war. Shot and shell had torn huge rents in the walls of the houses, and ploughed up or dug great holes in which could have been buried a horse and cart.

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]]> Company K First Alabama Regiment – THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE CHAPTER VI /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/three-years-in-the-confederate-service/company-k-first-alabama-regiment-three-years-in-the-confederate-service-chapter-vi/22322 Fri, 15 May 2020 02:05:13 +0000 /?p=22322 The enemy made no more general assaults upon the works until June 14th, but in the meantime were approaching by parallels and planting batteries of heavy siege and naval guns. A steady fire was kept up day and night both by the fleet and the land batteries. There were about eighty siege pieces in these latter. An eight-inch howitzer so planted as to enfilade a portion of the southern line of defences, caused much amusement as well as annoyance to the Confederates.

Siege and surrender of port Hudsonthe investment-SKIRMISHING-THE FIRST GRAND ASSAULT

ASSAILED AND ASSAILANTS-DOUBLY ARMED-LIEUT.

PRATT AT BATTERY II-THE ESSEX DRIVEN OFF-

LIEUT. ADAMS ELECTED-ARTILLERY PRACTICE-AS SAULT OF JUNE I4TH-EFFECT OF BUCK AND BALL-

BANKS INHUMANITY-LEAD FOR WATER-A GALLANT

CORPORAL-BATTERY I I SILENCED-GALLANT SCHUR-

MURS DEATH-THE SUNKEN BATTERY-MULE AND

PEAS-THE FALL OF VICKSBURG-UNCONDITIONAL

SURRENDER-GEN. GARDNERS SWORD-CASUALTIES

OF THE FIRST.

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]]> THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE: INTRODUCTORY /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/three-years-in-the-confederate-service/three-years-in-the-confederate-service-introductory/21644 Fri, 15 May 2020 00:15:31 +0000 /?p=21644 Company K First Alabama Regiment

THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE: CHAPTER I.

by
DANIEL P. SMITH
PRATTVILLE, ALA

PUBLISHED BY THE SURVIVORS
1885
Editied by Terry W. Platt
Enhancements and Notations Copyright © 2019 - 2020 Terry W. Platt

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]]> Baldwin County Has Been the Theatre of Some of the Most Striking Events in Alabama History /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/baldwin-county-has-been-the-theatre-of-some-of-the-most-striking-events-in-alabama-history/37719 Sat, 02 May 2020 04:18:53 +0000 /?p=37719 As originally constituted, Baldwin County lay wholly west of the Tombigbee River, east of the Mississippi line, north of the 31st parallel, and south of the fifth township line, including all the country south of that line in the present Clarke County.

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]]> Alabama A Pioneer State To Commence Red Cross Community /alabama-archives-and-history-selected-stories/alabama-a-pioneer-state-to-commence-red-cross-community/37784 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:47:37 +0000 /?p=37784 From the Tennessee line down to the Gulf, there was not a community, however remote it might be, that did not respond to the call for labor, money or membership, and when the Armistice was signed in 1918, nearly 150,000 Alabamians wore the emblem of the Red Cross.

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