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Pickett studied law, but never practiced professionally. He devoted his time to literature, management of a plantation, and historical research. He traveled widely and corresponded with archivists and book dealers in the Atlantic states and Europe in order to document his history of the state. He
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Jackson, Crawford M. (1859) "Brief Biographical Sketch of Colonel Albert J. Pickett," by Crawford M. Jackson (Montgomery)
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History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period
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History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period
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History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period
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The book was republished in 1900 with an addition, "Annals of Alabama 1819-1900", by
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was published in 1851, with the copyright renewed in 1878 by Mrs. Sarah S. Pickett.
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from the Southeast, in order to enable settlement by European Americans.
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in 1851. Pickett was working on a comprehensive history of the
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Anson County, North Carolina
Montgomery, Alabama
Historian
Anson County, North Carolina
Montgomery, Alabama
Autauga County, Alabama
Alabama
William R. Pickett
Creek Indians
Treaty of Fort Jackson
Indian Removal
Autaugaville
Charleston, South Carolina
Southwest
Thomas McAdory Owen
Wayne Greenhaw
Philip Beidler
incomplete
adding missing items
Biography portal
Works by or about Albert James Pickett
Internet Archive
Works by Albert J. Pickett
LibriVox
"Albert J. Pickett"
Find a Grave
Categories
1810 births
1858 deaths

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