Alan J. Pitts
Can only speak for myself....
Fri May 18 14:36:47 2001


THERE'S almost nothing in print under my name. A couple of Alabama regimental histories include an organizational chart that I composed, but nothing else. The Birmingham Public Library and the Alabama Department of Archives and History has a copy of my M.A. thesis:

Pitts, Alan J. "'Young Men of Barbour, Why Stand Ye Idle?': A Review of Confederate Soldiers from Barbour County, Alabama, 1860-1865." Master's thesis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1991.

In the early nineties I presented a couple of papers on the war in Alabama, one for the ADAH and the other for the Alabama Historical Society. One was titled something like 'Violence and Confederate Recruiting Efforts in Shelby County, Ala., 1863-65'. This was based in part on oral history from the Lower Yellow Leaf district which concerned events that people who live there today refer to collectively as "the killings".

At some point I hope to publish a guide to Alabama in the Confederacy which hopefully answer many of the questions people new to this area usually ask, and then some.