A History of Sumter County, Alabama, Through 1886
Title | A History of Sumter County, Alabama, Through 1886 PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Roycraft Smith (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Sumter County (Ala.) |
ISBN |
The Heritage of Sumter County, Alabama
Title | The Heritage of Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Heritage Publishing Consultants |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Registers of births, etc |
ISBN | 9781891647642 |
Pioneer Families of Sumter County, Alabama
Title | Pioneer Families of Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Nelle Morris Jenkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Alabama |
ISBN |
History of Sumter County, Alabama
Title | History of Sumter County, Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Lawrence |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Alabama |
ISBN |
Sumter County
Title | Sumter County PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Brown |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467113379 |
Sumter County was founded on December 18, 1832, on land ceded to the United States by the Choctaw Indians in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. Almost immediately, settlers began pouring in from Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. In the 19th and early-20th centuries, most of the residents were farmers; however, following the infestation of the boll weevil, many turned to raising cattle and growing timber. Every November, hundreds of hunters descend upon Sumter County in hopes of harvesting one of the thousands of deer that live on the rolling prairies and in the oak forests lining the Tombigbee River. With the help of Ruby Pickens Tartt, scores of ethnomusicologists, including John and Alan Lomax, traveled hundreds of miles to the red clay country of Sumter County in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s to record African American folk songs from people like Vera Hall and Dock Reed.
A Social and Economic History of Sumter County, Alabama, in the Antebellum Period
Title | A Social and Economic History of Sumter County, Alabama, in the Antebellum Period PDF eBook |
Author | Marylee Reynolds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Sumter County (Ala.) |
ISBN |
Gabr'l Blow Sof'
Title | Gabr'l Blow Sof' PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Brown |
Publisher | Livingston Press (AL) |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Enslaved persons |
ISBN |
Cush was a mixture of corn meal, water, and bacon grease cooked over an open fire by Confederate soldiers. That the editors have taken this title for the book indicates the emotional impact of Sprott's Civil War memoirs. Not only do we march and eat this mixture with Sprott, but we witness with him the first execution of Confederate deserters, the bewilderment and frustration of battling infantrymen with what they considered the inane orders from above, the bravery -- and the foolhardiness -- that war inevitably brings. This memoir follows the Sumter regiment from its first training sessions to its duty in Mobile near the war's end.