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April 25, 1777 – Nicholas Stallworth Sr., one of the
original settlers of Conecuh County, was born in Edgefield District, South
Carolina.
April 25, 1781 - British General Lord Charles Cornwallis
retreated to Wilmington, North Carolina from Guilford Courthouse. He had been
defeated by a militia under the command of American Major General Nathanael
Greene.
April 25, 1792 - The guillotine was first used to execute
highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier.
April 25, 1846 - The Mexican-American War ignited as a
result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war
fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.
April 25, 1861 – Store clerk Alfred Christian of Evergreen,
Ala., a native of Virginia, enlisted in the Confederate army at Sparta in Conecuh
County. Christian was elected Brevet 2nd Lt., and
his commission expired on Oct. 9, 1862 at Raccoon Ford, Va. He was appointed
2nd Lt., and his commission expired on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg. He was named
Orderly Sgt. and was appointed 1st Lt. on Feb. 6, 1864. Christian survived the
war and moved to Texas. At the time of his enlistment, Alfred lived with
his brother, George Christian, who briefly served as Evergreen’s postmaster in
1856-57. When the Civil War began, George was exempted from service because he
was a Justice of the Peace. George Christian is buried in the Burford Cemetery,
but has no grave marker.
April 25, 1862 – During the Civil War, forces under Union
Admiral David Farragut demanded the surrender of the Confederate city of New
Orleans, Louisiana. Union troops officially took possession on April 29.
April 25, 1864 – During the Civil War, the Battle of Marks'
Mills took place in Cleveland County, Ark. During the battle, Confederate
forces under General James Fagan captured a Union wagon train attempting to
supply Federal forces at Camden, Ark. Union General Frederick Steele was forced
to withdraw back to Little Rock.
April 25, 1864 - After facing defeat in the Red River
Campaign, Union General Nathaniel Bank returned to Alexandria, La.
April 25, 1865 – Having departed the battlefield at Blakely
near Mobile, Ala. on April 14, the Federal 16th Corps under Major General A.J.
Smith arrived in Montgomery, formally beginning the Union occupation of the
city of Montgomery.
April 25, 1873 – Writer Howard R. Garis was born in
Binghamton, N.Y.
April 25, 1884 – At the Calhoun House in downtown
Huntsville, Ala., which was used as a federal courthouse, desperado Frank James
was tried and found not guilty for the robbery of a government payroll near
Muscle Shoals, Ala. on May 11, 1881. One of his defense attorneys was
Huntsville’s LeRoy Pope Walker, first secretary of war of the Confederate
States of America.
April 25, 1891 – Army Pvt. Louis Hayles of Eliska, Ala., who
was killed in action during World War I on Nov. 11, 1918 (one day before the
war ended), was born.
April, 25, 1892 – French explorer of the Sahara Henri
Duveyrier passed away at the age of 52 in Sevres, a suburb of Paris.
April 25, 1892 – Estonian-German geologist and explorer Karl
von Ditmar passed away at the age of 69 in Tartu, Livonia.
April 25, 1898 - The U.S. declared war on Spain one day
after Spain had declared war on the U.S., marking the start of the
Spanish-American War.
April 25, 1901 - The American League debuted at the Chicago
Cricket Club. Chicago defeated Cleveland, 8-2.
April 25, 1905 - Dr. R.A. Smith of Monroeville, Ala. left
for New York to accompany a patient who was to be operated upon.
April 25, 1907 - Alabama author Sara Elizabeth Mason was
born.
April 25, 1909 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman
John Franklin "Home Run" Baker hit his first and only grand slam.
April 25, 1933 – The organizational meeting of the Central
Alabama Baseball League was held in Greenville, Ala. on this Tuesday with four
clubs as members – Evergreen, Greenville, Ft. Deposit and Luverne. League
officers included Lucian Glass of Ft. Deposit, president, and Loyce Hyde of
Evergreen, Merrit McLendon of Luverne, Carl Golson of Ft. Deposit and Floyd
Ziegler of Greenville, league directors.
April 25, 1939 – Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser was
born in Ames, Iowa.
April 25, 1942 – Judge Chauncey Sparks, who was running for
Alabama governor, was scheduled to speak from a band stand in Evergreen’s
business section on this Saturday at 4 p.m. Sparks went on to serve as governor
form Jan. 19, 1943 to Jan. 20, 1947.
April 25, 1945 - Albert B. "Happy" Chandler was
unanimously elected baseball commissioner.
April 25, 1949 – Poet and journalist James Fenton was born
in Lincoln, England.
April 25, 1951 – Army Cpl. Terry S. McCall of Escambia
County, Ala. killed in action in Korea.
April 25, 1952 – Novelist Padgett Powell was born in
Gainesville, Fla.
April 25, 1954 - A television version of Alabama author
Ambrose Bierce's story "Vengeance" was broadcast as part of the “Your Favorite Story” series.
April 25, 1957 – The Evergreen Courant reported that, just
as they were going to press, they learned that a woman had been killed and a
man and child were injured in a one-car accident two miles north of the Ray
Brothers Store on Highway 31 North of Evergreen, Ala. An ID card on the man
identified him as James Cannon of 809 North M St., Pensacola, Fla. The woman
and child were not identified in the story.
April 25, 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, a waterway system
of locks, canals and channels that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic
Ocean, opened. The first ship to navigate the seaway was an icebreaker, the D'Iberville.
April 25, 1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton
completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
April 25, 1961 - A television version of Alabama author Mary
Elizabeth Counselman's story "Parasite Mansion" was broadcast as part
of the “Thriller” series.
April 25, 1963 – The Evergreen Courant reported that an
article titled “County Organized for Farm-to-Market Roadwork,” written by
Conecuh County Engineer Marion Wilkins, had been published in the April 1963
issue of “Rural Roads,” a nationally circulated magazine concerned with the
building of federal, state, county and township roads.
April 25, 1974 - Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, died of
a heroin overdose at the age of 27.
April 25, 1974 - Tampa Bay was awarded the NFL's 27th
franchise.
April 25, 1990 - The crew of space shuttle Discovery placed
the Hubble Space Telescope into a Low Earth Orbit. Initially, Hubble's
operators suffered a setback when a lens aberration was discovered, but a
repair mission by space-walking astronauts in December 1993 successfully fixed
the problem, and Hubble began sending back its first breathtaking images of the
universe.
April 25, 1995 - Darryl Strawberry was sentenced to three
years probation, six months of house confinement and a $350,000 fine.
Strawberry had avoided prison for tax evasion.
April 25, 1996 - The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers
combined for the most runs in 26 years. The Twins won with a final score of
24-11.
April 25, 1997 – Walter Eugene “Gene” Garrett of Uriah, Ala.
passed away at the age of 68 in a Mobile hospital. He was a 1947 graduate of
Marion Institute and a 1953 graduate of the University of Alabama. He received
his law degree from Alabama in 1953 and went on to serve as a state legislator,
special judge and member of the Alabama Constitution Revision Committee. In
1963, he purchased the historic King Plantation House at Packer’s Bend and
moved it board by board to Uriah.
April 25, 2011 – Sweetwater Mansion in Florence, Ala. was
featured on an episode of A&E’s “Paranormal State.”
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