Account of the Union raid in Selma, Alabama, as remembered by Sarah Ellen Phillips. She describes an attack on a Confederate scouting party; her father's escape to Perry County; and the ransacking of local homes, including her own. In particular...
The plaque hanging behind them reads, "In this hall the ordinance of Secession which withdrew Alabama from the Union of Sovereign States, was passed Jan. 11, 1861. To commemorate this fact this tablet is erected by the Ladies' Memorial Association...