Emma Sansom
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Emma Sansom was an Alabama teenager and farm worker noted for her actions during the American Civil War, during which she assisted the defensive campaign of the mounted cavalry in the Confederate Army
Monument to Emma Sansom
Abel Streight
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Abel Delos Streight was a peacetime lumber merchant and publisher, and was commissioned a United States Army / Union Army colonel in the American Civil War. His command precipitated a notable cavalry
Emma Sansom
…Confederate Army's then Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), during the Streight's Raid by Union Army cavalry under command of Col. Abel Streight in April-May 1863. Activists 157 years later in the 2020 racial protests, including descendants of Sansom herself, called for the removal of a statue…
Col. Abel D. Streight, U.S.A. (1828–1892)
Capture site of Col. Abel Streight in Alabama, 1863
Portrait of Lovina McCarthy Streight by Julia Cox (1880)