Editor’s note: Due to a print error our correspondence columns were inadvertently omitted from this week’s print issue. By Russell Bailey, Tipton County Historian Colonel Thomas H. Logwood detailed Captain H. T. Hanks, Company C., 15th Tennessee Cavalry to prepare the Federal prisoners captured at Athens for their movement west and south, during the afternoon of Sept. 24, … [Read more...] about Tipton County in the Civil War: North Alabama
Russ Bailey
There are plans in the works to ask for the removal of Covington’s Confederate statue
With his sword drawn, he’s been standing in memory of Confederate soldiers for more than a century. But will he be proudly standing 100 years from now? Not if Matthew Pryor has anything to say about it. “I think it represents a painful past, it brings a lot of ill feelings back,” he said. “I think it needs to go.” Pryor was one of the organizers of the Unity Walk in Covington … [Read more...] about There are plans in the works to ask for the removal of Covington’s Confederate statue
