"To Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, native of Montreal, Canada, naval officer of France, governor of Louisiana, and founder of first capital, Mobile, 1711. Born 1860. Died 1768. Erected by the Colonial Dames of Alabama, in everlasting...
Advertisement for the sale of Milton A. Browder's estate at a "public outcry" auction on February 16, 1860. For sale are about 2,400 acres of land; 50 slaves ("of superior quality, embracing Boys and Girls, single men and women, and families, all...
"Daniel Emmett composed the words and music of 'Dixie,' but it was Herman Arnold of Montgomery, Ala., who, in 1860, wrote the original band score from the music score that Emmett wrote upon the wall of the old Montgomery Theatre with a piece of...
In the statement the delegates list the main points of the Alabama Platform, which had been rejected by the convention, and then formally withdraw from the gathering: "The points of difference between the Northern and Southern Democracy are: 1st....
"To Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, native of Montreal, Canada, naval officer of France, governor of Louisiana, and founder of first capital, Mobile, 1711. Born 1860. Died 1768. Erected by the Colonial Dames of Alabama, in everlasting...