July 11, 2024 at 6:30 pm
Announcement: Join the Round Table Thursday, July 11, because Huntsville’s Queen of Civil War History, Nancy Rohr will present “Rascality in Huntsville, 1861-1865: The spies among us.”
During the Civil War spies were active as agents in north Alabama and not generally recognized – after all that was their job. There were at least five documented agents of the Federal government active in Madison County during the years of the War. Using material from General Mitchel’s own letter books, the National Archives, and actual spy reports to their superiors the program illustrate a few tentative maps and actual reports naming the guerillas, those harboring guerillas, and loyalists needing protection from guerillas.
Nancy Rohr is a former teacher with a Master’s degree in reading education. She enjoys learning about Madison County’s history and has written several articles and five, soon to be, six books about the people and their lives here. Nancy is a prolific writer and lecturer who has authored four books and numerous articles on the history of Huntsville. She has also contributed a series of audio recordings which tell stories about life in early Huntsville, the residents of historic homes and local heroines of the Civil War.
Listed below are a few of Nancy’s works:
- Glimpses of Old Huntsville (audio recordings)
- An Alabama School Girl in Paris: The Letters of Mary Fenwick Lewis and Her Family, 1842-1844 (book)
- Echoes of the Past: Old Mahogany Table Stories (book)
- Free People of Color in Madison County, Alabama (book)
- Incidents of the War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Jane Chadick (book)
- Historical Essays (Articles)
