TIMLENNOX.COM: SO Glad The Confederate Capitol Moved in 1861!

The Confederacy was born in Montgomery...inside what is now, once again, just The Alabama Capitol Building.

The Alabama State Senate Chamber has been restored to the way it looked in 1861. It's the room where seven states voted to secede from the Union and form the Confederacy.

The Alabama State Senate Chamber, in which 7 states voted to secede from the U.S.

The Confederacy abandoned Montgomery and moved the capital to Richmond, Virginia, just three months after it was founded. If it had not...if The Confederate Capital had remained in Alabama...the capitol building and city probably have been destroyed as Richmond was. Note: It was mostly the Confederates and reisdents of Richmond who destroyed the city. Here's one description by Sally Brock:

“It (the fires) had consumed the very heart of the city. A surveyor could scarcely have designated the business portion of the city more
exactly than did the boundaries of the fire. Commencing at
the Shockoe warehouse the fire radiated front and rear, and on
two wings, burning down to, but not destroying, the store No.
77 Main street, south side, halfway between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Streets, and back to the river through Cary and all
the intermediate streets. Westward on Main the fire was stayed
on Ninth Street, sweeping back to the river. On the north side
of Main, the flames were stayed between Thirteenth and Four-
teenth streets. From this point the flames raged on the north
side of Main up to Eighth Street, and back to Bank Street.
“Among some of the most prominent of the buildings de-
stroyed were the Bank of Richmond, Traders’ Bank, Bank of
the Commonwealth, Bank of Virginia, Farmers’ Bank, all of the
banking houses, the American Hotel, the Columbian Hotel,
the Enquirer building, on Twelfth Street, the Dispatch office
and job-rooms, corner of Thirteenth and Main Streets, all
that block of buildings known as Belvin’s Block, the Examiner
office, engine and machinery rooms, the Confederate Post Of-
fice Department building, the State Court House, a fine old
building on the Capitol Square at its Franklin Street entrance,
the Mechanics’ Institute, vacated by the Confederate War De-
partment, and all the buildings on that Square up to Eighth
Street, and back to Main Street, the Confederate Arsenal, and
the Laboratory on Seventh Street."