Mobile Press-Register 200th Anniversary: The Civil War in Alabama (1860-1869) Updated: Jun. 16, 2013, 10:16 a.m. ... much of it stacked up on the Alabama Docks in Mobile.

As the state entered its second half-century, Alabama was facing bloodshed and despair that would rival the dark days of the Creek War and Civil War. This is a cartoon from the September 1, 1868 ...

The existence of the United States was framed by the blood of the American Revolutionary War. But it took the Civil War 80 years later to define the country. Until then the ‘United States&#82… ...

More than 15,000 people from Mobile served in the armed forces; 300 died in action. Women would hold nearly a quarter of defense-related jobs in Alabama during the war years. A $26-million defense ...

The Grand Hotel of Point Clear, Ala., marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in 2011. History enthusiasts will be coming to Alabama to visit historic sites, including the Alabama's Civil War ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

It may be 40 miles south on the eastern tip of Dauphine Island, but no trip to the Mobile Bay area is complete without a visit to Fort Gaines, one of the key sites in the famous Civil War Battle ...

Thanksgiving in Alabama: 'Yankee' holiday didn't catch on until after Civil War After the war, Alabama had Thanksgiving on Dec. 7, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866; Previously the South thought of it as a ...

Howell Raines’ "Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta – and Then Got Written out of History" (NY: Crown, 2023).