There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South “The grave of an unknown Alabama soldier was located on the property and marked. This soldier had died on a train passing through Abbeville, his remains removed and buried on Secession Hill.” The lyrics […]
(Transcribed excerpt is from The Monroe Journal, Monroe County Alabama, December 5, 1935) PICTURESQUE PERSONALITIES OF MONROE by Miriam Brewer Richardson, Montgomery Advertiser Captain Thaddeus C. Brewer was a delightful figure of old Claiborne where he edited The Monroe Journal and later The Monroe Eagle. He saw brilliant service in the Confederate Army, and after […]
Notices for lost slaves were posted like this in early newspapers of Cahaba, Alabama (Transcribed from Alabama State Gazette, Cahaba, Alabama April 3, 1825) STATE OF ALABAMA} DALLAS COUNTY} Personally appeared before me, John B. Griffin, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid Hezekiah G. Johnson, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith […]
"It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."Branch Rickey FreeHearts: 2nd edition A Novel of Colonial America (Tapestry of Love Series Book 3) Inspired by true events, Col. John Washington (ancestor of President George Washington), Randall Revell, Tom Cottingham, Edmund Beauchamp ward off Indian attacks and […]
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