Sunday, April 5, 2015

On this day in 1865, Union troops burned the University of Alabama

Via Billy

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Days before Robert E. Lee would surrender Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia, Union troops marched from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa to destroy anything that might benefit the "rebel cause."

Only a few buildings on the University of Alabama campus were spared.

In an article for the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society, former UA professor Robert Mellown outlined the days leading up to the event.

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