Spanish River Alabama
Spanish River contains two significant shipwrecks that date to the American Civil War period. The Confederate ironclads, CSS Tuscaloosa and CSS Huntsville,
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Helena Alabama
Helena Alabama Helena is a city in Jefferson and Shelby counties. Helena is considered a suburb of Birmingham and part
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Civil War Map: Siege operations at Spanish Fort
Siege operations at Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay, by the U.S. forces under Maj. Gen. Canby : captured by the Army of West Miss. on the night of April 8 & 9, 1865
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Civil War Map: Selma Alabama and Vicinity
Shows fortifications. Relief shown by hachures. Printed on blue paper. Mounted on paper. In pencil in top right hand corner: 1864, 61. Pencil notes in right margin. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S17, 111
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The Battle of Mobile Bay and Siege of Fort Morgan
The Battle of Mobile Bay and Siege of Fort Morgan The Siege of Fort Morgan occurred during the American Civil
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Affair At Madison Station
Affair At Madison Station May 17, 1864 The largest engagement of the Civil War in Madison County Alabama was fought
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Battle of Selma
Wilson’s Raid in Alabama and Georgia (1865), was a military engagement near the end of the American Civil War. It was fought in Selma, Alabama, on April 2, 1865, a town of about ten thousand inhabitants.
Continue readingRebel Line of Works at Blakely
Rebel line of works at Blakely captured by the Army of West Miss., April 9, 1865. Union positions are colored blue, and Confederate works are red. Includes roads, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures.
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Cedar Bluff Alabama / Cornwall Furnace
Cornwall Furnace is located near Cedar Bluff, Alabama in Cherokee County. It was built by the Noble Brothers to supply iron products to the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
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The Rape of Athens Alabama
The townpeople estimated the damage to be fifty-five thousand dollars. The resulting pillage and plunder came to be known as the Rape of Athens.
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Civil War Confederate Hospitals In Alabama
The Civil War was fought in over 10,000 places and was the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. Two percent of the population at the time (approximately 620,000) died during the conflict. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars combined.
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Confederate Lt. General Richard Taylor Surrenders In Citronelle Alabama
Confederate Lt. General Richard Taylor Surrenders In Citronelle Alabama May 4, 1865 Citronelle, Alabama At the wars end Confederate Lt.
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Fort Gaines
Fort Gaines is an historic fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama. It is best known for its role in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.
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Dauphin Island Alabama During the Civil War
Obtained from Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. These documents are the correspondence of Union Naval Officers that fully detail their part in the area of Dauphin Island During the Civil War.
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Bridgeport Alabama
Bridgeport Alabama was the site of a major skirmish on April 29 and August 26, 1862, and numerous other small actions took place in the area. In the latter part of the war, Bridgeport was the site of a major shipyard building gunboats and transports for the Union Army.
Continue readingMay 2 1862: Rape of Athens
On May 2, 1862, Athens was seized by Union forces under the command of Colonel John Basil Turchin.
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Battle of Autossee
The Battle of Autossee (meaning “war club”) took place on November 29, 1813, during the Creek War, at the Creek towns of Autossee and Tallasee near present-day Shorter, Alabama in Macon County Alabama.
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Barton Alabama
Between December 1862 and October 1863, several skirmishes took place in Barton as part of the American Civil War. Confederate forces sought to prevent the Union Army from invading the Tennessee Valley from their stronghold in Corinth, Mississippi.
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Oct 26-27, 1863: Engagement at Little Bear Creek
the largest engagement in Northwest Alabama during the Civil War was fought at Little Bear Cree
Continue readingJan. 15, 1865 Thomas Noble Farm in Red Hill Alabama
Red Hill is an unincorporated community in Marshall County.
During the American Civil War, one of Nathan B. Forrest’s generals, Hylan B. Lyon, was staying in a private residence in Red Hill. He was captured by a detachment of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, but managed to escape. On February 24, 1894, William Jackson Palmer was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions as colonel leading the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry at Red Hill, January 14, 1865 where “with less than 200 men, [he] attacked and defeated a superior force of the enemy, captured their fieldpiece and about 100 prisoners without losing a man.”
April 19 – May 3 1863: Streight’s Raid
The actual capture of Streight’s forces was achieved by a clever ruse, when Forrest paraded his much smaller force back and forth in front of Streight, convincing him that he was opposed by a superior force. After surrendering and being informed of the deception Streight reputedly demanded his arms back for a proper fight, a request cheerfully declined by Forrest.
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