Silent Cavalry
Silent Cavalry

Author: Howell Raines

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 0593137752

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. “It is my sincere hope that this compelling and submerged history is integrated into our understanding of our nation, and allows us to embrace new heroes of the past.”—Imani Perry, professor, Harvard University, and National Book Award–winning author of South to America We all know how the Civil War was won: Courageous Yankees triumphed over the South. But is there more to the story? As Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers—including at least one member of Raines’s own family. Called the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., this regiment of mountain Unionists, which included sixteen formerly enslaved Black men, was the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don’t we know anything about them? Silent Cavalry is part epic American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners—a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth. In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama state archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy as well as to redeem.

Family Maps of Pike County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition
Family Maps of Pike County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition

Author: Gregory A. Boyd

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781420314335

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Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Pike County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 324 pages with 77 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6727 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 101 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s124 1830s1876 1840s546 1850s3337 1860s350 1870s23 1880s141 1890s174 1900s147 1910s9 What Cities and Towns are in Pike County, Alabama (and in this book)? Allred, Ansley, Antioch, Baltic, Banks, Briar Hill, Brundidge, Buckhorn, Catalpa, Centre Ridge (historical), China Grove, Colina, Corcoran, Curry, Dunn, Enon, Ezell, Friendship, Good Hope, Goshen, Hallsville, Hamilton Crossroads, Henderson, Hephzibah, Jonesville, Josie, Kent, Lees Park, Lewis, Linwood, Little Oak, Logton, McClure Town, Meeksville, Monticello, Mossy Grove, Needmore, Olustee, Orion, Palmyra, Pleasant Hill, Pleasant Ridge, Pronto, Richland, Saco, Sanders Hill, Sandfield, Shady Grove, Shellhorn, Shiloh, Spring Hill, Stills Crossroads, Tarentum, Tennille, Thomas Crossroad, Troy, Wingard, Youngblood

Family Maps of Randolph County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition
Family Maps of Randolph County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition

Author: Gregory A. Boyd J.D.

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781420320336

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Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Randolph County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 326 pages with 71 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6708 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 46 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s609 1840s495 1850s2878 1860s1806 1870s95 1880s380 1890s284 1900s98 1910s34 1920s9 1950s3 1990s1 What Cities and Towns are in Randolph County, Alabama (and in this book)? Almond, Ava, Bacon Level, Barrett Crossroads, Bethel, Big Springs, Blake, Broughton, Butlers Mill, Cambridge, Cavers Grove, Cedron, Center Chapel, Center West, Christiana, Concord, Corbin, Corinth, Corinth, Cornhouse, Curt, Dickert, Dingler, Folsom, Forester Chapel, Foster Crossroad, Friendship, Fuller Crossroad, Gold Ridge, Graham, Harmon Crossroads, Hawk, Haywood, High Pine, High Shoals, Hobson, Jordan Chapel, Kaylor, Lamar, Lee Crossroads, Liberty, Liberty Grove, Lime, Lofty, Louina, Malone, Midway, Milner, Moores Crossroads, Morrison Crossroad, Mount Olive, Mount Pleasant, Mount Zion, Napoleon, New Hope, Newell, Ofelia, Omaha, Paran, Peace, Peavy, Pine Hill, Pine Tuckey, Pooles Crossroad, Potash, Providence, Roanoke, Rock Mills, Rockdale, Rocky Branch, Sewell, Smyrna, Springfield, Swagg, Taylors Crossroads, Tennant, Union, Wadley, Waldrep, Wedowee, Wehadkee, West, White Crossroads, White Signboard Crossroad, Wildwood, Woodland

Family Maps of Coffee County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition
Family Maps of Coffee County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition

Author: Gregory A. Boyd

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781420315523

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Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Coffee County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 316 pages with 65 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6844 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 95 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s6 1830s237 1840s518 1850s3105 1860s577 1870s8 1880s292 1890s1757 1900s304 1910s31 1920s4 1930s2 1940s1 1960s1 What Cities and Towns are in Coffee County, Alabama (and in this book)? Alberton, Arcus, Basin, Battens Crossroads, Bluff Springs, Boland Acres, Brooklyn, Central City, Chestnut Grove, Clintonville, Clowers Crossroads, College Heights, Coppinville, Curtis, Damascus, Danleys Crossroads, Elba, Enterprise, Fairview, Foxhill, Frisco, Goodman, Holley Store, Indigo, Ino, Jack, Java, Keyton, Kinston, Lee, Lowry Mill, Mixson, New Brockton, New Hope, Newby, Oak Ridge, Omni, Perry Store, Pine Level, Rhoades, Richburg, Roeton, Saddle Hill, Shady Grove, Tabernacle, Turner Crossroads, Victoria, Wilkinstown, Zoar