Alabama in the American Civil War

Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during January–March 1861, and to develop new state constitutions. The 1861 Alabamian constitution granted citizenship to current U.S. residents, but prohibited import duties (tariffs) on foreign goods, limited a standing military, and as a final issue, opposed emancipation by any nation, but urged protection of African-American slaves with trials by jury, and reserved the power to regulate or prohibit the African slave trade. The secession convention invited all slaveholding states to secede, but only 7 Cotton States of the Lower South formed the Confederacy with Alabama, while the majority of slave states were in the Union at the time of the founding of the Confederacy. Congress had voted to protect the institution of slavery by passing the Corwin Amendment on March 4, 1861, but it was never ratified.

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Plan of Fort Sidney Johnston

Military maps of the war of the Rebellion-miscellaneous, (1865-1879). LOC 2009581114-11

Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, in uniform - Howard & Hall, artists, Corinth, Miss LCCN2017659608 (cropped)

Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, in uniform) - Howard & Hall, artists, Corinth, Miss LCCN2017659608

Daniel Williams (1838-1862)

Plan of Fort Sidney Johnston

The Seceding Alabama Delegation in Congress (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 215, cover), print, designed and engraved by anonymous, American, 19th century (MET, 29.88.1(23))

Confederate congress (cropped)

Map of Blakely and Vicinity. Showing the disposition of the 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps, during the siege & and... - NARA - 305627

The Seceding Alabama Delegation in Congress

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Plan of Fort Sidney Johnston		Commons
commons	image		Military maps of the war of the Rebellion-miscellaneous, (1865-1879). LOC 2009581114-11		Commons
commons	image		Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, in uniform - Howard & Hall, artists, Corinth, Miss LCCN2017659608 (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, in uniform) - Howard & Hall, artists, Corinth, Miss LCCN2017659608		Commons
commons	image		Daniel Williams (1838-1862)		Commons
commons	image		Plan of Fort Sidney Johnston		Commons
commons	image		The Seceding Alabama Delegation in Congress (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 215, cover), print, designed and engraved by anonymous, American, 19th century (MET, 29.88.1(23))		Commons
commons	image		Confederate congress (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Map of Blakely and Vicinity. Showing the disposition of the 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps, during the siege & and... - NARA - 305627		Commons
commons	image		The Seceding Alabama Delegation in Congress		Commons