Blakeley State Park will be unable to hold the Civil War reenactment and living history activities this spring because of lack of state appropriations to operate the state historic park, according to Director Jo Ann Flirt.
Traditionally scheduled for every other year on a weekend near the April 9, 1865, battle that was the last of the American Civil War, the 2013 event had been tentative ever since the park entered the 2012-13 fiscal year without state funding, Flirt said.
Posted in Reenactment
Tagged Alabama
Auburn University Libraries acquired a rare collection of Civil War documents, which have been added to the Ralph Brown Draughon Library’s Special Collections and Archives Department, according to a press release from the university.
The documents are related to the peace negotiations that took place between emissaries of the Union and Confederacy aboard a steamer at Hampton Roads, Va., in February 1865. The Hampton Roads Peace Conference is featured prominently in the movie “Lincoln,” which was nominated for 12 Academy Awards.
Council members in an Alabama city voted Tuesday to stop a group’s work on a new monument honoring a Confederate general who was an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Selma City Council voted 4-0 with two members abstaining to stop all work on the monument to Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest until the courts decide whether the city or a Confederate heritage group owns the cemetery property where the monument would be rebuilt.
Despite his Southern upbringing, Col. Benjamin Franklin “Grimes” Davis remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, serving as a commander in the Federal cavalry. On Sept. 14, 1862, Davis confronted Col. Dixon Miles over the fate of his cavalry command at Harpers Ferry. Davis refused to be captured or surrender to the Confederates, proposing a daring breakout that would take him and the 8th New York Cavalry to safety.
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Tagged Alabama, Mississippi
Hurricane Isaac smashed into the Gulf Coast this week but it also unearthed a piece of history.
The storm uncovered this old ship in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Some people say it is a Civil War blockade runner while others believe it is a schooner used for smuggling liquor during the Prohibition Era.
Julie Dodds and Jack Prince are visiting from Missouri and while on Broad
Street, they checked out the Confederate Monument. They know the Civil War is
important
“Yes, it is because it’s part of our history. Without it, we wouldn’t make
the same mistakes and we would repeat it,” said Dodds.
Two years ago, Melanie Flanagan Elliott of Huntsville was going through a box of genealogy papers her father had collected before his death in 2000.
The papers piqued her interest, and she began a trek that unearthed many surprising finds. Her two-year journey culminated on Memorial Day with a Civil War Headstone Dedication Ceremony at the Webb Cemetery in the Trenton community of Jackson County.
After almost 150 years in a grave without a marker, a Civil War veteran is honored.
Saturday afternoon, the Sons of Confederate Veterans dedicated a marker on the grave of Private Arthur Malone Belcher. He fought for the South in the Civil War. Private Belcher died in 1864 and was buried in a Gardendale cemetary.
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