From June 1862 to November 1863, Bolling Hall, Jr., was lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Battalion, Hilliard's Legion. In the brief letter he discusses troop movements and campaigns; orders to hold the Cumberland Gap "at all hazards to the last...
Governor William J. Samford's horse-drawn hearse leads the procession of mourners down a Montgomery street in the rain. Businesses in the background include: J.A. Weiss Jeweler, Jesse French Piano and Organ Company, F.V. Hunt Drug Store, and Massey...
The 1918 influenza pandemic was one of the earliest, and perhaps the most traumatic experience to date, in the life of Mrs. Williams, age 91, of Selma, Alabama. That's because her father, a jeweler, contracted the disease and became very ill. Even...