Auburn and Opelika at the End of the Civil War

Auburn and Opelika at the End of the Civil War

Lee County, AL; Civil War; Auburn, AL; Opelika, AL; East Alabama Male College

The emancipation of slaves, a widespread labor shortage, and the collapse of the Confederate financial system all coalesced to bring the cities of Auburn and Opelika to ruin at the end of the Civil War. It would be ten years before a new home would be constructed in Auburn and the area’s educational system was completely wrecked. What was once a bustling and growing village would soon fall into stagnation. Though the East Alabama Male College reopened in 1866, it did so with fewer students and many unpaid professors.

Joshua Shiver

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

2014-12-5

Joshua Shiver

Auburn University Sesquicentennial Series: Auburn in the Civil War Era by Ralph Draughon Jr.
Book: Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. Fleming
Storey, Margaret M., Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

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