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It is the first book to chronicle the tragic saga of Indian Removal with a specific focus on the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama. With candor and objectivity, Winn chronicles the duplicity, political maneuvering, and military force through which the native Creeks ultimately lost their lands, illuminating latent issues of morality, sovereignty, cultural identity, and national destiny the affair brought to the surface.

This unique book was originally published in a limited edition in 1981 and has been out of print for many years. It is the most comprehensive collection of Civil War letters written by residents of southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia to be published.

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Poignant in emotion, informative in detail, and broad in scope, the correspondence contained herein provides the reader with a unique opportunity to understand the Civil War and its effect on individuals and families from an intensely personal perspective.

Between 1853 and 1903, approximately five hundred African-Americans left the Chattahoochee Valley to start new lives in the West African republic of Liberia. Most of the emigrants came from Columbus and Eufaula, and departed for Liberia during the uncertainty of the post-Civil War years of 1867 and 1868.

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Most sought safety and escape from a still intact white supremacist society. The ready availability of land in Liberia also promised greater opportunities for prosperity there than in the South. Black nationalism and evangelical zeal motivated others. Liberia would be their "own" country and afford an opportunity to spread Christianity throughout Africa. In Emigration to Liberia, published in coordination with NewSouth Books, author Matt McDaniel has outlined the history of this movement, the motivations and characteristics of the emigrant group, and the experiences of the emigrants in Liberia.

This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War was originally published in 1888. The book is filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war.

This handsome photo-journal offers a window into the traditional folkways and rich cultural heritage of one of the country's most distinctive regions.

DeJarnette, the founder of scientific archaeology in the state of Alabama, reports on archaeological surveys and excavations undertaken in the Chattahoochee River Valley between 1947 and 1962.

The first full-length biography of the man who rose from slavery to become a master bridge builder.

This volume lists all the printed works and unpublished sources which relate to Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Early, Harris, Muscogee, Quitman, Randolph, Seminole, Stewart and Troup Counties.

Covering more than 300 nautical miles in the Gulf of Mexico, this book guides cruisers along Florida's gulf coastline from Apalachicola to Anclote Key. Captain Rick Rhodes also explores the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, and Suwannee rivers. By including numerous historical anecdotes, Cruising Guide to Florida's Big Bend gives insight into the region's past, along with current marina, restaurant, and entertainment recommendations.

This study focuses on the port of Apalachicola, Florida, and the businessmen who created a chain of international finance and trade in the promotion and distribution of the Old South's major source of income. This book provides a detailed, highly-readable description of a regional antebellum economy in the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley.

This manual answers your questions on what to do about an old cemetery, whether it's small or large, holds your ancestors or not, or even if it has unmarked graves. Designed in an easy-to-read format, with clear suggestions and sources of further information, this book will be invaluable to those interested in cemeteries including descendants, community members, developers, and city or county authorities.

This illustrated book chronicles the history of the lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day.

A historical account of the nation's largest infantry training center.

Presents an energetic portrait of traditional folkways in the Chattahoochee River corridor. This new edition of George Mitchell's collected photographs, interviews, songs and field recordings makes this rich cultural heritage available to a new generation.

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91 black and white photographs. 2 compact discs containing 36 traditional folk songs.

The Dent journals are a highly detailed, circumstantial and altogether absorbing record of the activities of a successful Southern planter and financier in Alabama and Georgia over a period of half a century. This book includes information on the provenance of the original journals and a full index to the 5,700 pages of the journals as published on microfilm.

Through a variety of images, including historic photographs, postcards and artwork, this book illustrates the importance of the Chattahoochee River to the region it has helped sustain.

This absorbing volume reviews the role the Confederate Navy played on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers. The problems, creativeness, ingenuity and dedication of Confederate administrators, officers, and craftsmen are graphically depicted.

This chronological history is the first in-depth study of steam boating on these three rivers.

Many full-color photographs illustrate this region's historic, scenic and recreational sites. 80 pages, 170 illustrations. Published 1982 by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.

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This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter elite.

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The publication of this book was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

In 1995 photographers Joe and Monica Cook explored the length of the Chattahoochee and the Apalachicola rivers in a source-to-sea journey. This book presents a photographic record of this trip, presenting an impassioned plea for the preservation of this waterway.

In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich and powerful slave societies, the United States of America and then the Confederate States of America. The expansion and concentration of slavery into what became the Confederacy in 1861 was arguably the most momentous development after nationhood itself in the early history of the American republic.

This book explores the history of the old Federal Road that was opened from middle Georgia through Indian country to lower Alabama.

This book describes the way the native people of the Chattahoochee Valley lived from about 10,000 B.C. to the early 17th century when their culture was impacted by Europeans. The book deals with all aspects of daily life--how people fed themselves, what they ate, how they educated their children, what they believed about God and the cosmos.

The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the “Old Federal Road,” more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River.

The Historic Chattahoochee Commission (HCC) initiated a program which showcased important people, places, events and modes of transportation that have helped shape the history of the lower Chattahoochee Valley. Signed, limited edition art prints and posters were sold by the Commission to raise money for its heritage-tourism program of work and to spotlight selected subjects from the rich history and culture of this region. The first art print series focused on "Riverboats of the ACF Rivers" which have been drawn by noted Georgia artist Bucky Bowles.

Bucky Bowles produced his first successful painting at age eleven under the watchful eye of his favorite artist, his grandmother. His interest in art continued throughout his school years which led him to the B.F.A in Graphic Design. His career as a graphic designer has produced many notable corporate logos and a wide variety of advertising material over the past thirty-eight years. His artistic direction began to move back toward the fine arts in 1986 when he began painting watercolors of architectural details of local historical homes and buildings. His works then progressed to golfscapes and other sporting scenes that continue to include numerous commissions. Bucky's interest in the history of the Chattahoochee River and early development of Columbus led to a series of paintings of riverboats that traveled the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928 by Ed Mueller was the source for the University of Georgia and a pictorial images of the boats as well as their history. The B. Bowles Studio is in Fortson, Harris County, Georgia.

In 1881, the People's Line of Columbus, Georgia contracted with James Rees and Sons in Pittsburg to build "the finest vessel ever to wet the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee." She was to be called the CHATTAHOOCHEE. Her home port was Apalachicola, Florida. She was 155 feet in length, 31 feet wide, and a depth of four and a half feet and drew only 20 inches of water when not loaded. Her speed was 10 to 12 miles per hour in slack water. She was the first steel hull steamboat built in the United States and also the first with longitudinal and transverse bulkheads. The cabin accommodations were for 68 passengers. The well ventilated staterooms averaged 6 by 12 feet, and were furnished in birds-eye maple and mahogany. The saloon was furnished in black walnut and birds-eye maple with embossed paper-mache' panels. The décor included crimson velvet furniture and revolving chairs. Adjoining the saloon were the passenger bathrooms and a barber shop. The CHATTAHOOCHEE had high-pressure engines, each with a 15 inch diameter cylinder and a five foot piston stroke. She had three boilers, 42 inches in diameter, 20 feet long, each with six flues. The CHATTAHOOCHEE served on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers from 1881 to 1884 when it was transferred to the St. Johns River.

The Historic Chattahoochee Commission (HCC) initiated a program which showcased important people, places, events and modes of transportation that have helped shape the history of the lower Chattahoochee Valley. Signed, limited edition art prints and posters were sold by the Commission to raise money for its heritage-tourism program of work and to spotlight selected subjects from the rich history and culture of this region. The first art print series focused on "Riverboats of the ACF Rivers" which have been drawn by noted Georgia artist Bucky Bowles.

Bucky Bowles produced his first successful painting at age eleven under the watchful eye of his favorite artist, his grandmother. His interest in art continued throughout his school years which led him to the B.F.A in Graphic Design. His career as a graphic designer has produced many notable corporate logos and a wide variety of advertising material over the past thirty-eight years. His artistic direction began to move back toward the fine arts in 1986 when he began painting watercolors of architectural details of local historical homes and buildings. His works then progressed to golfscapes and other sporting scenes that continue to include numerous commissions. Bucky's interest in the history of the Chattahoochee River and early development of Columbus led to a series of paintings of riverboats that traveled the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928 by Ed Mueller was the source for the University of Georgia and a pictorial images of the boats as well as their history. The B. Bowles Studio is in Fortson, Harris County, Georgia.

The M.W. KELLY was owned by the Merchants and Naval Stores Transportation Company and was built by the Howard Yards of Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1900. She was 150 feet by 36 feet by 4 feet, had two engines, each with 13 inch cylinders and 5 foot piston stroke. The M.W. KELLY was equipped with an electric light plant run by steam which would power her 3,000 candle power search-lights, and 20 incandescent cabin lights. There were also four combination chandeliers for oil and electricity. Her hull, boiler deck and engine room were also lighted with electricity. It was said that the KELLY was one of the handsomest and best equipped independent steamers that was ever placed on the Chattahoochee. She served on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers from 1900-1908.