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Birmingham Alabama During the Civil War
Birmingham was not founded until 1871, after the U.S. Civil War, during the Reconstruction period. However, Alabama has an interesting history. During the Civil War, Montgomery, the state capital, was the capital of the Confederate States of America. Because of this, Montgomery is known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy." It is also the birthplace of the Confederate Constitution, and where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederacy in Alabama. In fact, because of the state's Civil War history and central location in the Deep South, Alabama is known as the "Heart of Dixie."
Another of Alabama's nicknames is the "Yellowhammer State." The state probably got this nickname because its Confederate troops placed yellow trimmings on their uniforms during the Civil War. Yellowhammers are birds with yellow patches under their wings.
Alabama Civil War Sites
- Reunions
- 23rd Alabama Infantry [Location, Date unknown]
- Escambia County, AL [Pollard, AL, 1910] [Roster of Clanton Camp, UCV]
- Confederate Memorial Park, Alabama Veterans' Home, Marbury [Cemetery list, #1] [Cemetery list, #2] [AL Historical Commission, brief notes]
- Athens [Capsule history, engagement, May 62] [Battle summary, 26 Jan 64]
- Croxton's Raid [See Tuscaloosa, below]
- Day's Gap, Battle of [Battle summary] [Capsule history, photos]
- Decatur, Battle of [Battle summary]
- Fort Blakeley, Siege of [History, illustrations, map, more] [Battle summary]
- Hog Mountain, Battle of [Photos, descriptions]
- Mobile Bay, Battle of [History] [History, illustrations, Fort Gaines] [CSS Tennessee involvement]
- Munford, Battle of (23 April 1865) [Brief notes]
- Rousseau's Raid [History, photo] [NY Times article, long]
- Selma, Battle of [Battle summary] [History]
- Southeastern Alabama (Federal Raid) [History, Dec, 62--Jan 63]
- Spanish Fort, Battle of [Battle summary]
- Streight's Raid [Cullman County and Streight's Raid]
- Talladega, Battle of [Brief notice, list of deaths]
- Tuscaloosa, (Croxton's Raid) [Burning the U of Alabama campus]
- Wilson's Raid [Official reports] [Brief notes]
- [Alabama Civil War regimental histories]
- [Civil War in Alabama] from the Alabama Department of Archives and History [ADAH homepage]
- Archival and manuscript collections:
- Alabama Dept of Archives and History [Military records, description]
- Auburn University [Civil War archival collections]
- Birmingham Public Library [Archives]
- Mobile area [Guide to Civil War collections]
- University of Alabama [Special collections]
- Coosa County [Brief notes, including military units]
- Cornwall Furnace, Cedar Bluff [Brief notes, photo]
- Decatur, AL [Illustrations, history]
- Fort Gaines, Mobile [Description, photos] [History, photos]
- Fort Morgan, Mobile [Photos, description]
- Mobile [Capsule history]
- Montgomery [as first Confederate capital]
- Pond Spring [Joe Wheeler home, description, photos]
- Selma, Ordnance Works [Brief notes, photo]
- Tallapoosa County [History, photos]
- Tuscaloosa [Outline history, reenactor photos]
- Alabama 1861-1865 [Map from Clement Evans' Confederate Military History (72 dpi resolution; for 300 dpi - large file - click on image)]
- Alabama Battlefields [Map of engagements] [Similar map] [Civil War sites]
- Blakeley Siege [Contemporary map]
- Mobile, Defenses of [Map from Clement Evans' Confederate Military History]
- Routes of Union Activity in Alabama [Maps of routes, etc.]
- Alabama in the Civil War [Message Board]
- Alabama Civil War [Message Board] (Rootsweb, genealogy)
- Alabamans in the Civil War, the Political Graveyard [Biographical notes, burial sites]
- Confederate Officers [Alabamans who died in service] (courtesy Alan J. Pitts)
- [Davis, Jefferson], in Alabama
- [Gorgas, Josiah]
- [Emma Sansom] or [Similar page]
- Cahaba, AL [History]
- Confederate States forces [Index, Confederate regimental histories] [Capsule histories] [Capsule histories (Confederate Military History)]
- United States forces [Index, Union regimental histories] [Capsule histories (Dyer's Compendium)]