Mass grave found in downtown Montgomery

KLTV 7 ^ | March 31, 2009 | KLTV 7

[GSP.FAN]

Montgomery Police spokesman Major Huey Thornton says it's believed the bodies are from a mass grave of victims who died of a Yellow Fever outbreak sometime in the early 1800's.

[GSP.FAN]

This is right up your alley..

[bill1952]

If he knew all that, then why are they digging there?
Or surprised?

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Bush’s fault......

[Westlander]

Detroit calls that fertilizer, only there’s is fresher.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Bodies? Someone can’t spell bones?

[autumnraine]

Yellow Fever hit hard in that time. Savannah had to bury bodies on top of each other three and four in a grave there was so many dying so fast.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yellow Fever Epidemic in Selma, Alabama

From “Selma; Her Institutions, and Her Men” by John Hardy, pub. 1879:

The business prospects of the place induced a material addition to the newspapers of the city. In January 1853, John Hard commenced the publication of the Daily Alabama State Sentinel, witch done its part in advancing the growth and industries of the place. The construction of the Alabama and Tennessee railroad was urged forward with energy, and it progressed into the up country new and profitable trade was brought to the city.

Prosperity and an increase of population to the city continued until August 1853. The yellow fever had made its appearance early in the summer at New Orleans, Mobil and Pensacola, of a most violent, malignant and fatal type, but no apprehension at first, existed at Selma from its ravages. But in this our people were most woefully disappointed. On the evening of the 13th day of August, a steamboat from new Orleans put on shore at the landing, a sick German, who was taken charge of by some of the hands about the landing and sent to the house of Mr. Earhart, and in a day or two died, a plain case of yellow fever having been developed.

In a few days after Mr. Earhart sickened and died with the same symptoms. Several cases of a similar kind were developed, mostly on Broad and Water streets, among them several deaths occurred. Our people became uneasy—a division of opinion existed among the physicians as to whether or not the disease was yellow fever. The disease continued to spread, and a number of deaths occurred, among them Dr. A. Barnum, until on the morning of the 13th day of October, 1853, the death of a young lawyer by the name of Mitchell, who had but recently located in the city, at his office, upstairs in the building now used by Maj. Jos. Hardie, as a warehouse, and on the same morning, of the death of W. A. Blevin, in a room over what is now Cawthon & Coleman’s drug store, where such plainly developed cases of yellow fever that there could be no mistake.

The physicians all pronounced yellow fever in the city. A most terrible panic at once ensued, and in one day the place was almost deserted. In a day or two a few young men and ministers, house servants, and occasionally a female in charge of a house were the only persons found in the city.

http://myselma.net/hardy/hd043.htm

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

[GSP.FAN]

Thank you that was very interesting.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Apparently not.

And from the story: “Crews working on a new building at the city lot literally uncovered the find Tuesday morning.”

You know, as opposed to figuratively uncovering the find.

Journalism is dead in this country.

[BAW]

Hoffa?

[dancusa]

The Revs. Jackson and Sharpton are going to refute that. They will claim they are victims of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The racial shakedown business has been a recession, like all other businesses since Obama took over.

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

Church Street Graveyard

[Joe 6-pack]

During my four years at Gettysburg College from '87-'91, there were several occasions where locals were renovating a property or digging a foundation and would find crates of amputated limbs.

The orange hurricane fencing would go up immediately and NPS personnel would descend on the site.

[tet68]

The heavy soft lead ( .68 Cal. that's 7/8ths of an inch)Minie balls would shatter limbs, the only remedy was amputation. I remember reading of surgeries
where amputated limbs would be tossed out a window into a heap.

[Joe 6-pack]

Indeed...that little Pennsylvania town became a meat grinder for three days. What is now the college administrative building had been at the time the library and dormitory. During the battle it had ben used as a field hospital alternately by both sides. I had a work-study job in the current library’s special collections room, and the college still had in it’s possession a number of books with blood stains.

[tet68]

Ooops , not quite 3/4”. Sorry.
still the soft lead held together and turned into the size of a quarter. The Anti-war protesters of today, would have been shocked by real war.