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Visit the 1820 Log Cabin & the adjacent pole barn. The log home is filled with the furnishings & fixtures essential to the daily life of a 19th century pioneer settler. Explore Central Alabama’s past as you visit the Corner Grocery Store, Carriage House & the Cleveland Avenue Presbyterian Church. Leave a Comment
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 Capitol Rotunda and
Murals by Stephen-KarenConn
1. Hostile Meeting of Desoto, Spanish Explorer and Tuscaloosa Indian Chieftian - 1540.
2. French Establishing First White Colony in Alabama Under Iberville and Bienville, Mobile, 1702-1711.
3. Surrender of William Weatherford, Hostile Creek Leader, to General Andrew Jackson - 1814.
4. Pioneer Home-seekers Led into the Alabama Wilderness by Sam Dale - 1816.
5. Governor William Wyatt Bibb and Committee Drafting the First State Constitution at Huntsville, 1819.
6. Wealth and Leisure Produce the Golden Period of Antebellum Life in Alabama, 1840-1860.
7. Secession and the Confederacy, Inauguration of President Jefferson Davis, 1861.
8. Prosperity Follows the Development of Resources Agriculture, Commerce and Industry, 1874-1930. Leave a Comment
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 Confederate War Memorial by Stephen-KarenConn
Contrary to popular misconception, The south did not fight the Civil War to perpetuate slavery, but to defend its homeland against northern aggression. Whites and blacks (both free and slave) served in the Confederate Army. In 1862, Alabama authorized "colored" militia units. Conservative estimates are that more than 65,000 African-Confederates served in the war, 7 to 8% of all Confederate soliders. Approximately 13,000 of these saw combat and some died in defense of their homeland.
According to the 1860 census there were 240,747 free Negroes in the southern states, which is 15,000 more than lived in the "free" states of the north. Some of the northern states would not even allow a black, free or slave, man to live within their borders.
Black Confederate Soldiers Leave a Comment
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 Memorial Flags beside the
Alabama State Capitol by Stephen-KarenConn
THIS MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED ON APRIL
6, 1918, AFTER A PARADE THROUGH DOWNTOWN
MONTGOMERY BY 30,000 PREDOMINATELY
OHIO TROOPS STATIONED AT NEARBY CAMP
SHERIDAN. THE ORIGINAL FLAGPOLE WAS
PURCHASED WITH THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE
SCHOOL CHILDREN OF ALABAMA. THE ADDITION
OF THE FLAGS OF THE FIFTY STATES OF THE
UNION GIVES ADDED SIGNIFICANCE TO THIS
MEMORIAL TO THE HEROS FROM ALABAMA WHO
ALONG WITH PATRIOTS FROM OTHER STATES
HAVE PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN
DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY.
ALBERT P. BREWER
GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA
1969 Leave a Comment
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 Statue of Jefferson Davis by Stephen-KarenConn
JEFFERSON DAVIS
SOLDIER - SCHOLAR - STATESMAN
A GRADUATE OF WEST POINT
MILITARY ACADEMY, HE SERVED
THE UNITED STATES AS COLONEL
OF MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS
MEXICAN WAR, MEMBER OF HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATOR
AND AS SECRETARY OF WAR
INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
CONFEDERATE STATES OF
AMERICA, FEBRURAY 18, 1861 Leave a Comment
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 A Press Conference at the
Alabama State House by Stephen-KarenConnLeave a Comment
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 Old Alabama State House
Chamber by Stephen-KarenConn
It was in this hall that the Alabama Legislature passed the "Ordinance of Secession", which withdrew Alabama from the Union of Soverign States, January 11, 1861. The issue was over states rights. The southern states believed strongly that the federal government should be limited in jurisdiction only to those powers specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States, and that the individual states had the right to govern themselves in all other matters.
Slavery did not become the major issue of the War Between the States until President Lincoln introduced it as a political ploy well after the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War) was under way. Before secession, the abomination of slavery was already being strongly opposed by many influential southerners and would have soon ended without the unspeakable added horror of the War. The Confederate Constitution outlawed the African slave trade, and in 1864, President Jefferson Davis proposed a plan to end slavery altogether.
Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, was one of the southern leaders who was opposed to slavery. Five years before secession he wrote that slavery was a "Moral and political evil." On the other hand Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union Army, was married to a slave owner and worked her family's slaves on his own farm. During the Civil War Grant stated that if he "...thought this was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side."
In Defense of the Confederacy Leave a Comment
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