Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation – Gen. Coffee in Creek Indian War (Story continued below) With the arrival of eight hundred and fifty newly arrived Tennessee volunteers at Fort Strother who had agreed to serve for sixty days, General Jackson’s army was sufficiently increased in numbers for him to consider a battle. About the same […]
Evergreen, Alabama had a meeting in 1839 to start an Academy for their children. Here are the names of some of those who attended and the results of the meeting (Transcribed from Evergreen Star, Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama, October 16, 1879 – The first part of this story has been cut diagonally and some of […]
Patron – Troops return, a wife leaves with another man, and Sheriff’s sale in Elba May 1901 (Transcribed excerpts from The Elba Clipper, Elba, Alabama, May 23, 1901) BOYS OF THE 29TH RETURN The 29th regiment having been mustered out in San Francisco some days ago, the boys are arriving home. Arthur Owens and Charlie […]
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