Barry N. Wyatt
Montgomery...
Tue Jun 26 15:25:33 2001


Hayes....this is from an article out of the Montgomery Advertiser that my grandmother held on to for many years. It is about the surrender of Montgomery. The article is based on research, not an article from the actual time of the war. Although it was a peaceful surrender, the town apparently did not go untouched. The Alabama Arms Manufacturing Company is not mentioned, but could have shared the same fate as others....


The Fall Of Montgomery
Three Days After Lee Surrendered, Federal Troops Took The Surrender Of The City Abandoned By Hard-Pressed Confederate Forces

By William Warren Rogers director of the Florida State University Extension Center at Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta GA, and Milo Barrett Howard Jr. of the Alabama Department Of Archives & History in Montgomery. (Date of article unknown)

"......Before leaving, the federal troops burned the depots and machine shops of the Alabama & Florida and the Montgomery & West Point railroads. Janney’s Foundry, the Bibb Rolling Mill, and the Nitre Works were also destroyed. On the Alabama River four steamboats were burned to the water’s edge......"