Category: Forts of Alabama

Current and historic military related sites of Alabama including the War of 1812, American Revolution, Civil War, Seminole Wars, Creek Wars and assorted skirmishes.

Explore Alabama: Forts of Alabama is our currated and researched list of present and former forts in Alabama. Not all forts were for use of the military in Alabama. Many were constructed by civilians for their use in case of Indian attacks.

Hundreds of forts are listed in our list within this category but not all have been thoroughly researched as well as we would like. The research continues on a daily basis. If you would like to know when we have updated information, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed for this category or subscribe to the newsletter.

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Tallassee on Henry Timberlake's 1762 "Draught of the Cherokee Country"

Tallassee Alabama

Posted on December 11, 2020January 24, 2021 by Staff

Tallassee (also “Talassee,” “Talisi,” “Tellassee,” and various similar spellings) is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Tallassee was the southernmost of a string of Overhill Cherokee villages that spanned the lower Little Tennessee River in the 18th century. Although it receives scant attention in primary historical accounts, Tallassee is one of the few Overhill towns to appear on every major 18th-century map of the Little Tennessee Valley.

Camp Hilary A. Herbert

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2021 by Staff

Camp Hilary A. Herbert was at Riverside Park in the north part of the city. The camp was likely in the southeast part of the park. This was a very popular park around the turn of the century but no longer exists.

Fort Morgan Alabama

Posted on November 28, 2020December 23, 2020 by Terry W. Platt

Explore Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places – Fort Morgan, in Baldwin County, Alabama, was built in 1819 was in use during the Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I and World War II.
It is rumored that visitors can hear the cries and screams of men late into the night, and they have seen the ghost of a solitary woman searching for justice after being killed at the fort.

Blakeley Alabama

Posted on November 29, 2020December 24, 2020 by Vickie Platt

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.

Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, 1864, showing damage to the south side of the fort.

The Battle of Mobile Bay and Siege of Fort Morgan

Posted on October 20, 2020December 23, 2020 by Staff

The Battle of Mobile Bay and Siege of Fort Morgan The Siege of Fort Morgan occurred during the American Civil

Battery Duportail

Posted on October 19, 2020December 23, 2020 by Staff

Battery Duportail Battery Duportail (1901-1931) – Battery Duportail (1901-1931) – Battery Duportail was a reinforced concrete, Endicott Period 12 inch

Fort Gaines

Posted on October 19, 2020December 23, 2020 by Staff

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.

Fort Conde

Posted on December 25, 2020February 8, 2021 by Staff

Mobile was originally founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville in 1702 as Fort Louis de la Mobile at 27-Mile Bluff up river (27 miles [43 km] from the mouth).[1][2] After the Mobile River flooded and damaged the fort, Mobile was relocated in 1711 to the current site. A temporary wooden stockade fort was constructed, also named Fort Louis after the old fort up river.[1] In 1723, construction of a new brick fort with a stone foundation began, renamed later as Fort Condé in honor of Louis Henri de Bourbon, duc de Bourbon and prince de Condé.

Atchinalgi : Creek Indian Village

Posted on August 31, 2020December 31, 2020 by Staff

U.S. and Cherokee troops under Brigadier General James White, following the orders of Major General John Hartwell Cocke, massacred the Hillabee Creek towns along the Tallapoosa River in present-day Cherokee County, AL.

Neamathla, who has been one of the most distinguished of the Seminoles, and was at one time their head man, or principal chief, was by birth a Creek.

Battle Of Hobdy’s Bridge: Last Significant Indian Battle In Alabama

Posted on June 20, 2020December 23, 2020 by Staff

On March 24th, 1837, the last significant Indian battle in Alabama was fought between 900 warriors of the Creek Nation and white settlers. Led by General William Wellborn, a large force of volunteers and militia left Eufaula, Alabama (then called Irwinton) to find and capture or kill the Creek Indians…

Talladega Alabama Courthouse Square by Rivers Langley

Talladega Alabama and The Battle of Talladega

Posted on June 18, 2020December 23, 2020 by Staff

Talladega is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 15,676. The city is the county seat of Talladega County. Talladega is approximately 50 miles east of Birmingham, Alabama.

Fort Harker

Posted on June 17, 2020December 23, 2020 by Terry W. Platt

Fort Harker was built to defend a strategic position captured by Union troops in northeastern Alabama. Situated atop a hill east of the town of Stevenson, it was constructed in the summer of 1862 by soldiers and freed slaves of the Army of the Cumberland.

The Miracle of Mobile Bay

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 by Terry W. Platt

This story is not fiction. It is an amazing account of an episode in connection with the naval battle in Mobile bay, on August 5 1864, when the monitor Tecumseh was sunk in action. The names in the story, as told by Rear Admiral Goodrich, are real, and with the historic facts set forth are in the records of the great Civil war.