Young boys in the front of the group are holding baseball bats. This image appeared on page 32 of HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN ALABAMA: WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES by W. H. Nixon.
Sloss founded the Sloss Furnace Company in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early 1880s. This image appeared on page 128 of the book THE STORY OF COAL AND IRON IN ALABAMA by Ethel Armes, published in 1910.
(Available records from the Civil War have major as the highest rank Hill attained. One biographical sketch from 1901 asserts that he was a lieutenant colonel when the war ended. In this photograph, he has the sleeve braids of a colonel and at...
The first image shows a display inside the hall, which features Lide's photograph and framed copies of the citations she earned during the war. Lide's relatives and personnel from the fort are standing in front of it (left to right): Laura Riddle...