After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their descendants still live today. Remains of the Clotilda were found in ...

Irvine served in that same navy, on board the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah — the last Confederate ship to surrender ... "It was said during the American Civil War that there were more ...

Semmes would, after the Civil War ended, write up his adventures ... He had been a cook on the packet ship Tonawanda, captured by the Alabama in 1862. He was taken aboard the Alabama and forced ...

Hale's son-in-law became the first Black physician in Alabama. Thompson plans to write a biography about Hale and continues ...

Women would hold nearly a quarter of defense-related jobs in Alabama ... producing war materiel for Japan and European countries. Local shipyards won contracts to build Liberty ships and ...