Alabama Historical Quarterly Table of Contents: 1950-1969
The Alabama Historical Quarterly was published from 1930 to 1982 by the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH). The table of contents is provided here upon written permission from the copyright holder.
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 12, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1950
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Indians in Alabama , by Marie Bankhead Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Removal of Indians From Alabama , by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . . . .91
Indian Tribes and Towns in Alabama , by Thomas M. Owen. . . . . . . . 118
Indian Treaties, by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 13, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1951
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Alabama Indian Chiefs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Indian Wars in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Nameplaces Affected by the Indian War of 1813-14 . . . . . . . . . . 132
Indian Trading Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
White Men Associated with Indian Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
The Government and Indian Affairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Creek Indian War 1836-37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2, 1952
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Naval Battle of Mobile Bay , by Francis X. Walter . . . . . . . . . 5
The Alabama National Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
General LaFayette's Visit to Alabama in 1825 . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Historic Spots in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Miss Julia Strudwick Tutwiler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Address Delivered at Oakwood Cemetery , Hon. George Platt Waller. . . . . . . . 99
General Albert Sidney Johnston, by Jimmie Chappell . . . . . . . . . 109
John Tyler Morgan, by Louise Huggins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Thomas Hill Watts , by Marianne Donnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Organization of the Confederate States Navy, by James D. Pappas. . . . . . . . 122
Confederate Mothers of Alabama , by Betty DeVenny . . . . . . . . . . 125
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend , C.J. Coley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
The Alabama State Memorial at Vicksburg , Address of Hon. Walter B. Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Alabama Beauty Spots and Interesting Sites, by Rebecca Crenshaw. . . . . . . . 141
LaGrange College , by Elisabeth L. Edwards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Cotton Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 14, Nos. 3 and 4, 1952
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Major Henry Churchill Semple, by Saffold Berney. . . . . . . . . . . 163
History of Marion , Perry County , by S.A. Townes. . . . . . . . . . . 171
Historic Sites in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Monuments and Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Some Alabama Women Writers, by Marie Bankhead Owen . . . . . . . . . 275
State Militia, June 1865-Dec.1865, Compiled by Clyde E. Wilson . . . . . . . . . . 301
The Days That Are No More, by Ella Storrs Christian. . . . . . . . . 331
Some Unforgotten Incidents in Lowndes County, by Samuel Walker Catts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1953
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Wetumpka Founders Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Address by Thomas D. Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Historic Sites in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Some Alabama Women Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Reconstruction in Bullock County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
The Days That Are No More, by Ella Storrs Christian. . . . . . . . . 126
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 1953
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
History of Opelika , by Rev. F.L. Cherry (first half). . . . . . . . 176
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 15, Nos. 3 and 4, 1953
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
History of Opelika , by Rev. F.L. Cherry (second half) . . . . . . . 383
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 16, No. 1, 1954
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sketch of Jehu Wellington Vandiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Pioneer Talladega , Its Minutes and Memories--by Wellington Vandiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 1954
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories, by Wellington Vandiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 16, Nos. 3 and 4, 1954
Contents:
Mobile, History Reader for the Fourth Grade. . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
The Choctaw Trading House, 1803-1822, by Aloysius Plaisance. . . . . 393
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 17, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring and Summer 1955
Contents:
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Autobiography of Samuel Forwood, Contributed by Doy L. McCall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
William Henry Graves: Gentleman Scholar, by Robert R. Rea. . . . . . .20
Medical Sources of the Confederacy, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . .28
LaFayette 's Visit to Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Lewis' Tavern at Fort Bainbridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Principal Stage Stops and Taverns in What is Now Alabama Prior to 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Butler County , Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Planters Hotel, Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall 1955
Contents:
Dueling in Alabama , by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Extracts From the Travels of William Bartram . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
The Muscogees or Creek Indians from 1519 to 1893, by Dr. Marion E. Tarvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
United States Land Offices in Alabama , 1803-1879. . . . . . . . . . 146
The Flag and the Birthday of Alabama , by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . 154
A History of Company B, 40th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.. . . . . . . . 159
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 1955
Contents:
Minutes of Fellowship Baptist Church, Wilcox County, in the Mt. Moriah Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
History of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Holcombe, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Alabama , 1840, pp. 118-19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
A War Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 1956
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Frontispiece, Richard Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Creation of Montgomery County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Original Court Records of Montgomery County . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Original Montgomery County, Mississippi Territory Marriage Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Abstract of Territorial Census, 1818. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Original Tracts of Land in Vicinity of Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . .19
Early Land Holders with Descendants Still in Possession of Land. . . . . . . 24
Alabama Militia, Election Returns, 1821. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Incorporation of Montgomery Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Klinck Letter on Founding of Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Andrew Dexter, Sketch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
John Falconer, Sketch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Proposals for Publishing a Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
LaFayette's Visit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Earliest Post Offices in Montgomery County . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Montgomery Postmasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Newspaper Advertisements, Montgomery Hotels. . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Gerrard Hansford, Barber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Montgomery True Blues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Capt. Rush Elmore's Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Montgomery Rifles, Army of Alabama , 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Capt. Troy's Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Company D, Spanish-American War, 1898. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Representatives from Montgomery County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Noted Visitors to Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Alabama State Capitol, by James B. Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
First White House of the Confederacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1956
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
John Crenshaw Burris, by Martha Hadwick Swann. . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Early Macon County Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
List of Voters at an Election held at Notasulga, 1849. . . . . . . . 145
Ratifying Incorporation of Masonic Female College . . . . . . . . . . 150
Index to Macon County , Alabama , Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Muster Roll of Macon Guards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Early History of Tuskegee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Tuskegee in Olden Times. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Macon "Variety Works". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Township School List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
The Auburn Male College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
A Letter From Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Darby's Air Contrivance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
A Brief History of the LaPlace Methodist Church . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Historical Sketches of Macon County , by H.M. King. . . . . . . . . . 187
James M. Torbert's Journal for 1856. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 18, No. 3, Fall 1956
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Cotton Manufacture in Alabama to 1865, by Richard W. Griffin . . . . 289
"Scraps", by Thomas Smith Malone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Alabama License Returns, Limestone County , 1826, 1827. . . . . . . . 381
Original Limestone County Land Purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Recollections of Caroline Leadingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Proceedings of Alabama Legislature, December 8, 1820 . . . . . . . . 401
Dr. Shackelford's Red Rovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
The Tennessee State Line, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . . 412
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 18, No. 4, Winter 1956
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
The Stars and Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Artificial Limbs, by Clyde E. Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
A War Time Foundry, by Kate Quintard Noble Roberts . . . . . . . . . 463
Samuel Noble, A Sketch by His Daughter, Mrs. Kate Q. Roberts . . . . 468
An Account of the Occupation of Fort Hudson, La., by Crawford M. Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Ten Months Experience in Northern Prisons, by J.B. Stamp . . . . . . 486
Sam Lary's "Scraps From My Knapsack," Edited by W.E. Wight. . . . . 499
Rousseau's Alabama Raid, by Mark E. Fretwell . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Major Henry Churchill Semple, by Saffold Berney. . . . . . . . . . . 552
Mary Semple Gayle Law's Reminiscences of Major Semple. . . . . . . . 559
Some Confederate Letters of I.B. Cadenhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Diary of Turner Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 1957
Contents:
The Park Papers, Edited by Margaret Pace Farmer. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Dale County and Its People During the Civil War, Reminiscences of Mary Love(Edwards) Fleming . . . . . . . . . . .61
Oak Bowery Church Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Oakbowery Methodist Church Cemetery Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Latham Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
The Coosa River Crossing of British Refugees, 1781, by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Woodrow Wilson Visits Mobile , October 27, 1913, by George C. Osborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Autobiography and Civil War Letters of Joel Dyer Murphree. . . . . . 170
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 19, Nos. 2 and 3, 1957
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Fort Claiborne , Sketch by Justus Wyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
First Alabama River Survey, by Howell Tatum. . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
James Craig's Tennessee Volunteers at Claiborne. . . . . . . . . . . 220
Death of Lieutenant Wilcox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Sale of Lots in the Town of Claiborne , Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . 232
G.W. Creagh's Commission from Governor Bibb. . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Early History of Monroe County , Alabama , Thomas M. Owen. . . . . . . 250
The Officials Of Monroe County While The Court House Was A Claiborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Postmasters at Claiborne, 1817 to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Claiborne Postmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
LaFayette 's Visit to Claiborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Notable Personages who Some Time had Associations with Claiborne . . . . . . . . 280
Letter to Mrs. Caroline Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Record of Inscriptions in the Jewish Cemetery, Claiborne . . . . . . 284
Records of Cemetery at Claiborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Charles Tait, Early Settler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Tait-Conrad Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Washington Hall, Claiborne's Leading Hotel, 1844 . . . . . . . . . . 297
James Dellet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Rufus Torrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Torrey-Dellet Correspondence, 1843-1845. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Steps and Landing, Alabama River , Claiborne. . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Flag of the "Claiborne Guards" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Map of the Town of Claiborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Insert
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 1957
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Governor Bibb and the Times. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Kolb & the Populist Revolt as Viewed by Newspapers, by Charles Grayson Summersell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Joseph F. Roper Diary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Samuel Bains Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
David Tate to Cadet David Moniac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Muster Roll, Tallassee Guards, Indian War 1836. . . . . . . . . . . 409
Ticknor's Company, First Regiment, Alabama Volunteers for Texas Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Alabama in Mexico War, Letter to Dr. S.W. Wyman from S.F. Nunnelee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Mexican War Reminiscenses, by Judge Zo. S. Cook. . . . . . . . . . . 435
Capt. Tennent Lomax Letters to his Sister, Eliza, 1848 . . . . . . . 461
Dexter Avenue, by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 1958
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Athens Academy and College, by Richard W. Griffin. . . . . . . . . . . 7
More About Mordecai, by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Robert Alexander Smith, A Southern Son, by William Robert Stevenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
That Doctor---The Spy, by Mrs. Octavia Fletcher Frazier. . . . . . . .61
The Origin of the Confederate Post Office Department and Comments on Some Stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
James D. Lynch in War and Peace, by James A. Carpenter . . . . . . . .71
Personal Recollections of Andrew Malone Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Clarke County Salt Works, by Dr. T.J. Krouse . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
LaFayette Artillery Book, Summerfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Fannin Family Records, from Mrs. Nannie H. Raley . . . . . . . . . . 127
Flags Over Alabama , by Mary S. Owsley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 1958
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Record of the Alabama State Artillery from it's Organization in 1836 to the Surrender in 1865 and from its
Reorganization from 1872 to 1865. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 1958
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
The Brooke Guns from Selma , by Walter W. Stephen . . . . . . . . . . 462
Asa Jordan Blair's Part in the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
Reminiscence of Perote in Bullock, by Catherine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
John T. Milner's Trip to California , Letters to the Family . . . . . 523
Dedication of the John T. Milner Bridge, Address by Gen. R.E. Steiner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Alabama Newspaper Mottos from 1865 to 1900, by William Warren Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
The Western Boundary Line of Alabama, A Comment, by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter 1958
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Report of a Corporal of the Alabama First Infantry, by Robert Partin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
The Siege of Mobile , by James K. Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Recreation of Soldiers -- 1861-65, by Paul H. Satterfield. . . . . . 601
A Patriotic Confederate Woman's War Diary, 1862-1863, Edited by H.E. Sterkx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
The Sunken Guns of the Chattahoochee River , by Walter W. Stephen . . . . . . . . . . 619
Letters to Robert Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Llewellyn, 1864 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Walter Lynwood Fleming, by Frankie C. Enzor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Mobile Custom House Entries, 1817-1818. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Claiborne Bridge Dedication, Remarks by Peter A. Brannon . . . . . . 650
Social Classes in the Alabama Black Belt, 1870-1910, by Glenn Sisk . . . . . . . . . . . 653
The 1890-92 Campaigns for Governor of Alabama, by Thomas Goode Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 21, Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4, 1959
Contents:
Marker on the Grave of John Crowell, at Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . 1
Fort Mitchell , Russell County , Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Some Early Fort Mitchell References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Benjamin Hawkins---Kendal Lewis Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Fort Mitchell in the Indian Uprising of 1818 . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
John Floyd at Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Distribution of Troops at Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
The Creek Indian factory at Fort Mitchell , by Nella J. Chambers. . . .15
Building of Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Locust Tree on Federal Road at Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Col. John Crowell, Indian Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Indian Agency Near Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
The Post Office at Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Crowell Cemetery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Map of Russell County , Eastern Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Map of U.S. Reservation, Russell County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Incidents Connected with the Life of Fort Mitchell . . . . . . . . . .65
Timpoochee Barnard, Uchee Indian Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Fort Mitchell Cemetery , by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
William Bartram, Early American Naturalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
William McIntosh, Creek Chief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
David Crockett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Tookabatchee Masonic Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Early Reference to First County Seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
"God's Acre" at Crawford, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Moffett's Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Seale Cemetery , Russell County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Howard Cemetery , Russell County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Bass Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Coweta Indian Mound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Russell County Place Names, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . .96
Origin of County Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Col. Milton of the 3rd Infantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Wetumpka Council House, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Sons of Temperance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Woolfolk-Camp Duel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Early Wine Bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Map of Part of Russell County , 1836 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
John Bascomb, Race Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Lewis Cass Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
West Point Cadet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Historical Memoranda Concerning 15th Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Drawing of Crowell Cemetery , Inlaid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fold-in
Index, Vol. 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 22, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring and Summer 1960
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iv
James M. Torbert's Journal for 1857-1874. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Personal Reminiscence of 1905, by Rear Admiral John Hood . . . . . .77
John Hunt, by Robert C. Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
The Poor in Provincial Alabama , by Glenn Sisk. . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Republicanism in Jefferson County, Alabama 1952-1958, by Allen Woodrow Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 1960
Contents:
Fort Toulouse , By Daniel H. Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 1960
Contents:
The Bowie Letters, 1819 and 1821, Edited by Virginia K. Jones. . . . . . . . . 231
Alabama Notes, Made in 1883-1884, by Dr. Edward Palmer . . . . . . . 244
Transcripts of Henry County Legal Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Earthenware Vessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Some Recent Accessions by the Department of Archives and History, Compiled by Jessie E. Cobb, Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Reconstruction in Pike County Political & Military, by Mrs. Kate Murphree Copeland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 23, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring and Summer 1961
Contents:
A.B. Moore Correspondence Relating to Secession, edited by Milo B. Howard, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mobile During the Blockade, by Earl W. Fornell . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Diary of William Grafton Stevenson, by edited Carl Rush Stevenson. . . . . . . . 45
Publications in Alabama During the Confederacy Located in the State Department of Archives and History,
compiled by Jessie E. Cobb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
A Story of Company D. 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., by James G. Hudson, "Chaplain and Treasurer,"
edited by Alma H. Pate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Letters of W.H. Mitchell, Jan. 1861, edited by Virginia K. Jones. . . . . . . . . 180
Military and Naval Activities in Alabama from 1861-1865 by William Letford and Allen W. Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 23, Nos. 3 and 4, Fall and Winter 1961
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The 4th Alabama Regiment at the Battle of Manassas . . . . . . . . . 208
The Pioneer Banner, A Confederate Camp Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . 211
The Escape of J. Melville Thornton from Camp Butler, Illinois, Edited by William Warren Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Col. James F. Armstrong of Montgomery County, Rendered Unusual Service to Confederacy, by Floelle Youngblood Bonner. . . . . . 231
Alabama Conscripts Acts, 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
A Memorial Sermon of Nicholas H. Cobbs, by George F. Cushman . . . . . . . . . . 249
A Contemporary Account of the Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, Edited by Virginia K. Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Governor John Gill Shorter, Executive Papers, Edited by Milo B. Howard, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
A University Cadet's Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Casper W. Boyd, Company I, 15th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. . . . . . . 291
Turkeytown, C.S.A., Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Montgomery Confederate Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Shelby Springs, C.S.A. Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Confederate Memorial Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Recent "Centennial" Additions to Department of Archives and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Alabama 's Representatives in the Confederate States Congress, by William Letford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Montgomery Military Academy , 1862. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Index, Volume 23, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1962
Contents:
The Alabama Department of Archives and History, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . 1
General N.B. Forrest as a Railroad Builder in Alabama, by John C. Jay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
An Alabama Literary Movement, a History and a Tribute, by Frances Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Thomas Cooper DeLeon, Alabama 's First Professional Man-of-Letters, By Benjamin B. Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Diseases in the Alabama Black Belt, by Glenn N. Sisk . . . . . . . . .52
Interesting Autographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
The Muster at Sawonogi, by Peter A. Brannon. . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
The Early History of the Music of Troy , Alabama , by Olivia Rainer. . . . . . . 68
Establishment of the Alabama Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Recent "Centennial" Additions to the Department of Archives and History Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Map of Alabama Territory as created 1817. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 24, Nos. 2, 3, and 4, 1962
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Five Confederates, by Charles T. Jones, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 25, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring and Summer 1963
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rousseau's Raid on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, by Edwin C. Bearss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
"The Money Matters" of a Confederate Soldier, by Robert Partin . . . . . . . . 49
Alabama State Currency, 1861-1865, by Milo B. Howard, Jr . . . . . . .70
A Georgia Confederate Soldier Visits Montgomery, Alabama, 1862-1863, by Allen W. Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Two Uncollected Civil War Poems of Alexander Beaufort Meek, by Benjamin B Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Political Parties and Propaganda in Alabama in the Presidential Election of 1860, by Durward Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Alabama Plantation to Georgia Farm, John Horry Dent and Reconstruction, by Thomas A. Belser, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . 136
A Sketch of 12 Months Service in the Mobile Rifle Co., by an Unidentified Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Confederate Prison at Montgomery , Ala. , by Earl Antrim. . . . . . . 190
Original Interments at Cahaba Cemetery ---Now Interred at Marietta National Cemetery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 25, Nos. 3 and 4, Fall and Winter 1963
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Colbert Ferry by Dawson A. Phelps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
The Bonapartists in Alabama by Anne Bozeman Lyon . . . . . . . . . . 227
The State Capitol in Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
The White Basis System and The Decline of Alabama Whiggery by Carlton Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
A Great Day for the Whigs of Alabama edited by Virginia K. Jones . . . . . . . . . . 254
Alabama Opinion and the Whig Cuban Policy by Durwood Long. . . . . . 262
Colonel James M. Whitehead: Agrarian Editor of the Deep South by William Warren Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
1763---The Forgotten Bicentennial by Robert R. Rea . . . . . . . . . 287
Some Interesting Accessions of the Department of Archives and History During the Fiscal Year 1962-63 by Julia A. Perdue. . . 294
The History of Mount Sterling by Euba Eugenia DuBose . . . . . . . . 297
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 1964
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Montgomery as the Confederate Capital: View of a New Nation. . . . . . 1
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 1964
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Gaines' Reminiscences, by George S. Gaines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Fort Stoddart in 1799: Seven Letters of Captain Bartholomew Schaumburgh, edited by Jack D. L. Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 26, No. 4?, 1964
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Colonel Streight Drives for the Western and Atlantic Railroad, by Edwin C. Bearss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The War Comes to Central Alabama: Ebenezer Church, by John Kent Folmar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Brigadier-General James Deshler, Professional Soldier,
by Richard B. Sheridan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Alabamians in the Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, by Benjamin F. Cooling III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
"Betsy Hamilton": Alabama Local Colorist, by Benjamin B. Williams . . . . . . . . 235
Amnesty and Pardon and Republicanism in Alabama, by Sarah Van V. Woolfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
The Senatorial Career of Gabriel Moore, by John M. Martin. . . . . . 249
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 27, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring and Summer 1965
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
French and Spanish Cartography of Alabama , by Jack D.L. Holmes . . . . 7
Charles Strachan in Mobile : The Frontier Ordeal of a Scottish Factor, 1764-1768, by John D. Born, Jr . . . . . . . . .23
Economics and Politics in the 1860 Presidential Election in Alabama, by Durwood Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The Birmingham & Southeastern Railroad, by Michael J. Dunn, III. . . . . . . . 59
Mobile and the Visit by Woodrow Wilson, by Derrell Roberts . . . . . .81
A Hoosier Regiment in Alabama , by Arville L. Funk. . . . . . . . . . .91
A Description and History of Blount County , by George Powell . . . . .95
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 27, Nos. 3 and 4, Fall and Winter 1965
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
The Political Cartoons of the Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor and Tuskaloosa Blade, 1867-1873, by Sarah Van V. Woolfolk. . . .140
John W. DuBose: The Disillusioned Aristocrat, by Hugh C. Davis . . .167
Freedom Hills, by Robert R. Madden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Ira Van Deusen: A Federal Volunteer in North Alabama,
by Ron Bennett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
The Journal of Sarah G. Follansbee, edited by Mrs. Virginia K. Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 28, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring and Summer 1966
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
John McKinley: Jacksonian Phase, by John M. Martin. . . . . . . . . . 7
The "Hard Fortune" of Theodore O'Hara, by Richard P. Weinert . . . . .33
Migration Patterns of Alabama 's Population, 1850 and 1860, by Tommy W. Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
"Pocket Diary for 1861" by James Osgood Andrew Story, edited by Dr. Llerena Friend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 28, Nos. 3 and 4, Fall and Winter 1966
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Prefatory Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Our Life, in Brazil , by Julia L. Keyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 29, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring and Summer 1967
Contents:
Joseph C. Manning: Militant Agrarian, Enduring Populist by Jerrell H. Shofner and William Warren Rogers . . . . . . . . . 7
Dauphin Island 's Critical Years: 1701-1722 by Jack D.L. Holmes . . . 39
Leroy Pope Walker's Mississippi Interlude edited by Willie D. Halsell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 29, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall & Winter 1967
Contents:
The Early Career of Gabriel Moore by John M. Martin. . . . . . . . . .89
Martial Montgomery : Ante Bellum Military Activity by John H. Napier, III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
One Year of the War: Civil War Diary of John Withers, Assistant-Adjutant-General of the Confederate Army,
Edited by H.E. Sterkx and L.Y. Trapp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Index (Vol. 29 --- 1967). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 1968
Contents:
Madgowys Forever! The Present State of the Madoc Controversy, by Robert R. Rea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Diplomatic Mission of Henry Washington Hilliard to Belgium, 1842-1844, by John William Rooney, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
The Choctaws in 1795, by Jack D.L. Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Unionist Efforts to Control Alabama Reconstruction, 1865-1867, by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Underwood and Harding: A Bipartisan Friendship, by Evans C. Johnson. . . . . . . 65
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1968
Contents:
Benjamin Hawkins, The First Modern Indian Agent by Frank L Owsley, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Libraries in the Ante Bellum South by Tommy W. Rogers. . . . . . . . .15
Lt. Colonel David W. Baine: A Confederate Hero from the North by ElbertL. Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Confederate Defenses and Union Gunboats on the Tennessee River: A Federal Raid into Northwest Alabama by Kenneth R. Johnson . . . . . 39
A Stranger Indeed in a Strange Land edited by Willie D. Halsell. . . . . . . 61
A Lincoln "Drama" From The Deep South edited by William Warren Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 30, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall and Winter 1968
Contents:
Southern Congressmen and the American Naval Revolution, 1880-1898 by Thomas H. Coode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
The Cycle of Military and Economic Interests: A Theory of Confederate Defeat by T.L. Connelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Confederate States Navy at Mobile , 1861 to August, 1864 by William N. Still, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
The Life of Ryland Randolph As Seen Through his Letter to John W. DuBose by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Violence: An Instrument of Policy in Reconstruction Alabama by Ray Granade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Daniel R. Hundley's Contribution to Folklore by Tommy W. Rogers. . . 203
Slavery in the 1850's: The Recollections of an Alabama Unionist by Walter F. Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 31, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 1969
Contents:
Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Constitution of Alabama , 1819. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Journal of the Constitutional Convention, 1819 . . . . . . . . . . . .41
The Original Draft of the Alabama Constitution of 1819 as Reported by the Committee of Fifteen, Clement Comer Clay,
Chairman by Malcolm C. McMillan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Journal of the Constitutional Convention, 1819, As Reported in Alabama Republican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
The Alabama Historical Quarterly
Vol. 31, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall and Winter 1969
Contents:
History of Early Cahaba: Alabama 's First State Capital
by Sam Earle Hobbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Alabama 's Hilliard: A Nationalistic Rebel of the Old South by Carlton Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Benjamin Hawkins' Trip Through Alabama , 1796 by Marion R. Hemperly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
A Southern Student Describes the Inauguration of President James Buchanan edited by Kenneth R. Johnson . . . . . 237
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Bailey, Edgar Gardner Murphy: Gentle Progressive, by James A. Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Boney, A Union Soldier in the Land of the Vanquished: The Diary of Sergeant Mathew Woodruff, June-December,
1865, by Sylvia Cook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Index (Vol. 31 --- 1969). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1