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ECHOES Nity College Innity College Brewton The July Program Scheduled for 3:00 P.M. Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Dr. Clifton Perry is Native Americans one of the speakers hold a unique position in whose program is coor- American society. They dinated by the Caroline are members of sover- THE NEWSLETTER FOR Marshall Draughon eign nations, albeit de- Center for the Arts & pendent (e.g., Navajo Humanities at Auburn Nation or Poarch Creek University. He is cur- Nation), and they are rently an instructor at state and United States ECHOES the University. citizens. The relationship between Native Ameri- Dr. Perry holds the cans and the United Hudson Chair Profes- States government has sorship and is a profes- evolved throughout time sor of political science and the policies affecting and specializes in pub- Dr. Clifton Perry the relationship between lic law and ethics. He THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY HISTORICAL COUNTY ESCAMBIA THE the two have changed has been admitted to significantly since the first treaties the bar in Alabama, New Mexico, Na- were signed with Native American vajo Nation, Jicarilla Apache Nation, tribes. and Arizona. This lecture explores the evolution The program, which will be a varia- in the relationship and explains the tion on “Citizenship Rights of Native impact of semi—sovereign nations Americans,” will be presented at the within the United States and what that Fine Arts Gallery Room at the Tho- means for citizenship rights of Native mas E. McMillan Museum on the Americans. It also examines the rela- campus of Jefferson Davis Commu- tionship between states and tribes. nity College in Brewton. Inside This Issue The June Program Jeff Ross, a victim of a mixup in scheduling Just Briefly 2 a couple of months back, has graciously con- Alabama History 2 sented to bring us his program on the Elli- cott Line in June. Benjamin Franklin Pringle 4 Commissioned before 1800, part of this sur- Mauser 98 Meeting Snapshots 5 veyed line comprises the border between Alabama and Florida. Mr. Ross describes Greatest Battle Rifle Ever Devised 6 the difficulty encountered and the results of Volume 36, No. 5 Oral History Questions 10 this survey. Mauser 98K 12 Dues May 2009 Written in Stone 13 Remember to check your records to see if you Ancestry.com Workshop 13 have paid your membership dues. Just Briefly... From Jerry Simmons ning for a seat in Congress. In this issue we are featuring a Journal article, A great article was contributed by Susan Craw- compiled by Darryl Searcy about weapons of war, ford about Benjamin Franklin Pringle, one of her one of which was recently donated to the Thomas direct ancestors. The Pringle family name may be E. McMillan Museum. We appreciate Darryl and familiar with some because that’s the name of a his writing, and not simply because he most often creek near Bluff Springs where a running battle chooses unique topics. His writing is comprehen- was fought during the (not very) Civil War. If you’d sive, no matter what the subject, and this month’s like to read it, there’s a great story by ASHS mem- article is no exception. ber Neal Collier in one of the Alger-Sullivan Saw- mill Scrapbooks. We have one here in the Ala- Of course, this is the Escambia County Histori- bama Room or you may purchase one from one of cal Society’s newsletter, but we’d be remiss if we the ASHS members. Incidentally, there are other didn’t have a variety of subjects for you to read, local names in Susan’s article that might be familiar even if it has little to do directly with Escambia to you. County. I was told many years back that it never hurts to “stretch your paradigm.” and we attempt to Thanks also to Sherry Johnston for allowing us do that for you. If you don’t know what that means, to publish one of her “Written in Stone” columns please look it up. When you do, I think you’ll find (see page13) that I used the right term. We have two scholarship recipients this term: Since I claim responsibility for this month’s Leigh Ann Wiggins and Terry Walker, both of newsletter (for better or for worse), I’m taking ad- Brewton. We have invited them to attend our May vantage of the fact our editor Ranella Merritt and meeting to receive a certificate. The Scholarship husband Paul are way over in Europe on vacation. Committee is very proud of our Society in working If Paul comes back and tells you that it was simply to assist these young people obtain an education. a fact-finding mission, you’ll know he’s in the run- Kudos to you all! June Alabama History June 3, 1898: Richmond Pearson Hobson of Greensboro becomes a naval hero when he sinks his own ship, the Merrimac, during the Spanish-American War. Hobson, aided by a crew of seven, sank the collier in an at- tempt to block the Spanish fleet in Cuba's Santiago harbor. For this act of bravery, Hobson was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1933. June 11, 1963: Robert Muckel, a 29-year-old white high school teacher from Nebraska, unintentionally be- comes the first student to successfully integrate a public educational institution in Alabama. Shortly before Gov. George Wallace made his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" at the University of Alabama, Muckel sat down for his first class at Alabama A&M College, an all-black institution. Attending a summer science institute, Muckel did not realize when he applied that A&M was a segregated school. June 12, 1933: Actor and singer Jim Nabors is born in Sylacauga. Nabors began acting while a student at the University of Alabama, and is best known for his Gomer Pyle character, who appeared on The Andy Griffith Show from 1960-1964, and later on his own series, Gomer Pyle USMC. Nabors has also appeared in several feature films, but has concentrated his later career in music. June 19, 1864: The CSS Alabama, captained by Mobile’s Raphael Semmes, is sunk at the end of a fierce na- val engagement with the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Cherbourg, France. The Alabama had docked there for maintenance and repairs after 22 months of destroying northern commerce on the high seas during the Civil War. June 27, 1880: Helen Keller is born in Tuscumbia. Having lost both sight and hearing by illness as a small child, Keller's life story and activism inspired new attitudes toward those with handicaps. VOLUME 36, NUMBER 5 Page 2 Our Business Members DIXON’S NURSERY Nursery—Landscaping—Irrigation 323 Dixon Nursery Road Brewton, Alabama 36426 Phone 251-867-5847 Paul Shelley, Director PO Box 278, Brewton, AL 36427 [email protected] VOLUME 36, NUMBER 5 Page 3 Benjamin Franklin Pringle Of Escambia, Alabama and Florida Contributed by Susan Crawford Benjamin Franklin Pringle was born Oc- vices. tober 25th, 1837 at Pringle's Bluff, Florida, Mr. Pringle married Mattie Jane now called Bluff Springs. He was the son of Herrington March 12, 1868 and they resided John A. and Lucretia Nettles Pringle. When at Pollard, Alabama. Fourteen children were he was about seven years old, his family born to this union of whom seven were still moved to Ferry Pass, Florida, and then to alive at the time of his death. He died March Lauderdale County, Mississippi, when he was 6th, 1917 in the Mobile Infirmary from harden- about thirteen years of age. He was reared ing of the arteries. there to manhood. He was buried with Masonic honors in the While visiting a sister near Brewton, Ala- Beulah Cemetery near Pollard, within one bama April 10th, 1861, he enlisted with Com- mile of the farm home he developed and first pany F, Metropolitan Guards, 3rd Alabama settled in 1868. He had said the place was Regiment, under Captain Vince Hunter and four miles northwest of Pollard. The property Lt. Col. Lomax. He was one of the first to vol- is located in Sections 5, 6 and 8, Township 1 unteer at the call of the Confederacy, al- North, Range 9 East, Escambia County, Ala- though opposed to secession, he yielded and bama. cast his lot with the wishes of his State. He never had any limb amputated during Under one of the world's greatest military the War and always enjoyed the best of geniuses, Stonewall Jackson, he was se- health, but frequently he would complain from lected the first part of 1862 as one of Jack- "misery" in his right arm and sometimes in son's sharpshooters and later made First one of his legs. However, this was only during Lieutenant of the Sharpshooters. He had inclement weather. been relieved of picket duty only a short time when the general was struck down by his own He had one brother, John Pringle, who men. went to the front in the latter part of 1861, but we have no record of the battles he was in. He was in the Seven Days fight around He died in the hospital at Norfolk, Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, and had his left hand torn 1863 from measles. His mother's father, off by a shell. In Malvern Hill, he received a James Herrington, volunteered for services wound over his right eye; in Boonesboro, but was turned down on account of a rupture Maryland, he was wounded in his hand and and was unable to serve. Wade McBride and his hip. At the Battle of the Wilderness, his Bill Jones of Montgomery and John T.
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