Forts of Alabama Table of Contents
A currated list of forts in alabama including civil war forts, war of 1812 forts, current and past military forts.
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Category: Alabama Battlefield Sites
Clive Cussler, Mobile Bay & Civil War Ships
The interesting aspect the marine archaeology of Mobile Bay is that so little has taken place. Except for a survey of Civil War obstructions just below the main city dock area, a few dives on the monitor Tecumseh, and the discovery of two Confederate ironclad floating batteries, no one bothered to confirm the location and dispositions of the many ships lost in and around Mobile Bay beginning as early as the sixteenth century.
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Creek War Battle Sites in Alabama
Creek War Battle Sites in Alabama The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek
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Decatur Alabama
Decatur Alabama is home to the Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic. The 2018 event is May 26 & May 27 subject to change depending on weather conditions.
Continue readingBattle of Holy Ground
Creek prophets performed ceremonies at the site to create a spiritual barrier of protection. Hence the Creek name “Econochaca,” loosely translated as holy ground, but properly translated as sacred or beloved ground.
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Fort Williams was important in both the War of 1812 and again during the Creek War, it having served in the years between as an Indian Agency.
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ALABAMA BATTLEFIELDS
The majority of Alabama battlefields found listed at other sites show only the major battles throughout Alabama’s history. Digital Alabama tries to include the countless lesser known incidents. If bullets or arrows are flying, it is a battlefield.
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April 30 1863: Battle of Day’s Gap
The Battle of Day’s Gap, fought on April 30, 1863, was the first in a series of American Civil War skirmishes in Cullman County, Alabama, that lasted until May 2, known as Streight’s Raid.
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Alabama Civil War Timeline
Alabama was not the scene of any significant military operations during the Civil War, yet it contributed about 120,000 men to the Confederate service, practically all the white population capable of bearing arms. Most were recruited locally and served with men they knew, which built morale and strengthened ties to home.
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Castle Morgan – Cahaba Prison – Selma Alabama
Cahaba prison was located near Selma, Alabama, in the center of the now-vanished town of Cahawba which was the state capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1826. The prison was located in a cotton warehouse on the banks of the Alabama River and was in operation intermittently from 1862 to April 1865.
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May 10 – 14, 1862: Lamb’s Ferry
According to Civil War journals, on May 4, 1862, Union General John Adams and his cavalry troops were at Lamb’s Ferry when they received orders to move down the Tennessee River to Bainbridge Ferry. From May 10 through the 14, 1862, skirmishes between the Union and Confederate troops occurred around Lamb’s Ferry; the area remained occupied by Union soldiers until May 14, 1862.
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July 25, 1862 Courtland Alabama
A trooper of the 1st Ohio Cav. attests that the rebel yell “would have raised the hair on a Comanche Indian.”
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Battle of Tallushatchee
The Battle of Tallushatchee was a battle fought during the War of 1812 and Creek War on November 3, 1813.
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April 30, 1863: Battle of Crooked Creek
After repulsing Forrests attack at Day’s Gap in the early morning hours Streight’s “Mule Brigade” continued south about 6 miles until reaching Crooked Creek.
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Battle of Day’s Gap
The Battle of Day’s Gap, fought on April 30, 1863, was the first in a series of American Civil War skirmishes in Cullman County, Alabama, that lasted until a battle on May 2nd, known as Streight’s Raid.
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Alabama Civil War Sites Table of Contents
Alabama Civil War Sites Battle of Athens Limestone County Alabama The Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle, also known as
Continue readingMay 3, 1863: Cedar Bluff Alabama
One of the most memorable Civil War battles was between the Union forces of Colonel Abel D. Streight and the Confederate forces under General Bedford Forrest. This battle was in Cedar Bluff, Alabama.
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Alabama Civil War Sites Map
Civil war battles and skirmishes mapped and notated.
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Gaylesville Alabama
The Gaylesville Alabama area was settled in the early 1830s, just before the removal of the Cherokee Indians. It was known originally as Sulphur Springs Alabama.
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Blakeley Alabama
Overlooking the marshes of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta just north of Mobile is the site
of the Alabama ghost town of Blakeley.
Now a part of Historic Blakeley State Park, the city once competed with Mobile for the status of queen city of Lower Alabama. All that remains today are gravestones, a few ruins and traces of old streets.
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Blue Mountain Alabama
The Blue Mountain area was settled by the Hudgins family in the late thirties and for years was the terminus of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, being the shipping station for the Oxford furnace. During the War, the Confederate Government operated both the railroad and the furnace, the iron being shipped to Selma to make “Ironclads” for the Confederacy. The town was burned in 1864.
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