July 29, 1862 - Confederate spy Marie Isabella "Belle"
Boyd was arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in
Washington, D.C.
July 29, 1862 - The Confederate cruiser, “Alabama,” (known
in Britain as “Enrica”) left Liverpool, unarmed, ostensibly on a trial run. On
July 31, she proceeded from the Irish Sea into the Atlantic for a rendezvous to
receive her arms and ammunition before commencing her attacks on Federal
commerce shipping.
July 29, 1862 – During the Civil War, skirmishes occurred at
Law’s Landing and Old Deposit Ferry, Ala.
July 29, 1864 – Robert W. McCants, who served with the
Monroe County Militia in Beats 8 and 9 and with Co. C of the 5th Alabama
Regiment, enlisted in the Confederate army. He is buried in the Bells Landing
Presbyterian Cemetery in Tinela.
July 29, 1865 – John DeLoach was commissioned for his third
term as Monroe County’s Circuit Court Clerk, and Samuel H. Dailey was
commissioned as Monroe County’s Sheriff.
July 29, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. James F. Smith
of Brewton “died from wounds.”
July 29, 1946 – James Conrad Marshall was born on this day
in Monroeville. On Jan. 31, 1968, he would be killed while defending the
American Embassy in Vietnam as a United States Marine Corps Corporal.
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