Alabama is a treasure trove of history; for good and ill, it is a place that gives truth to Faulkner’s notion that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Few things are as unapologetically steeped in that living history quite like the numerous civil war reenactments in the State.
In terms of the damage done and lives lost, the Heart of Dixie got off reasonably light in the Civil War. Being sparsely populated, Alabama only sent 2578 soldiers to the Confederacy. Of those, 50 died in combat operations, and there were 345 deaths from all causes.