On July 4, 1929, the Pensacola News Journal ran a photo accompanied by an article about four little cousins playing “war” and waving...

On the morning of May 8, 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea, the USS Lexington was attacked by a Japanese airstrike. During the...

As the time for childbirth approached in the early 1900's of Pensacola it was customary for mid-wives to live with the intended family so...

The 28th Infantry Division sailed for England in October 1943 and landed at Normandy on July 22, 1944. They were immediately thrust into...

In the small town of Ridgeway, Missouri, a farmer and his wife gave birth to two sons. Frank Turner Rinehart and Ola May Sanders had nine...

For years, people thought he was buried in an unmarked grave in the Brewton Cemetery. However, researchers found that he actually had...

Long after his burial in an unmarked grave in the Brewton Cemetery, the Negroes refused to believe old Railroad Bill was actually dead....

Railroad Bill's body was embalmed and placed in a metallic casket and set out on the depot platform until the mail train pulled into the...

Slowly the story of what happened in Atmore began to spread among the law enforcement community. Apparently. Bill had been seen in the...

With the death of Sheriff McMillan, the wily outlaw’s reward rose to $1,200.00 for his capture and the manhunts increased. A couple of...

Eventually, Bill returned to Bluff Springs where he hid out among the black populace in a small shantytown located down near the railroad...

Time after time Railroad Bill emerged victorious after each robbery or shoot out with the law but time was running out for the outlaw as...

One reason for his lengthy success was that the notorious robber usually did his work alone and in a bold way. Most outlaws of his time...

The black gunman was shrewd, cunning, and as crafty a fugitive as the lawmen in these parts had ever tangled with. Time after time the...

Another story of his changeling ability was when the same sheriff got word that Bill was probably heading for his girlfriend’s house over...

The legends surrounding him grew and were of such heroic proportions because of stories such as stealing groceries from the rich and...

It was about that time, as the story goes, that the law in Florida required everyone to have a license to carry a rifle and of course...

And later, as the manhunt to capture him mounted in earnest, the Negroes began asking themselves late at night as to why the white...

The saga of Escambia County’s first black outlaw began when a Negro man by the name of Bill wandered into the town of Atmore looking for...

One of the first land battles in the Pacific was on the banks of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal by the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine...