The University of Mobile marks the 10th year of its Billy G. Hinson Lecture Series with a talk on the legacy of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
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Church Street Graveyard: Mobile’s City of the Dead and the Fever That Filled It
Behind mossy brick walls a few blocks from downtown Mobile lies Church Street Graveyard, where yellow fever epidemics of the 1800s filled the ground faster than headstones could be carved.
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The Boy Who Rowed Out to Farragut’s Fleet: A Mobile Family’s Memoir Begins
A memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, a Mobile-born nun, opens with an Irish immigrant on the docks, a wounded Confederate prisoner, and a boy summoned home by Admiral Farragut himself.