Tag: alabama
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Steamboats on the Tombigbee
While visiting relatives in LA (Lower Alabama) I came across a copy of Rufus Ward’s book The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads, and Side-Wheelers. Ward takes a look at Alabama’s almost forgotten steamboat era from the 1840s to the 1880s, in which the steamboats plying the Mobile, Alabama, Warrior and Tombigbee rivers dominated the […]
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Soldiers, Deserters, and Turncoats
Both the Union and Confederacy had to fight two wars—one against their external enemy, one against their own people. Some people simply wanted to avoid the war or military service, while others willingly drew the sword against their own people. In the Union it was relatively easy to avoid military service; in the Confederacy it […]
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Alabama Flags Need Restoration
A nice article on Civil War flag restoration in the Montgomery Advertiser.