These four images are clippings from the January 28, 1863 SOUTHERN ADVERTISER (Troy). The first three deal with a resolution by the citizens of Coffee County supporting Alabama Governor Shorter call for a draft to raise troops to protect the salt makers of the Gulf Coast. This alarm was produced by the Yankee raid on Geneva the month before where the steamboat Bloomer was captured and taken to East Pass (present-day Destin) to support the U.S. Navy post there that was supporting Union sympathizers, deserters and fugitive slaves. In December of the same year this front page article was published, the Yankees burned the entire town of St. Andrews and did over $3,000,000 damage to the salt works on the bay. The U.S.S. Bloomer was used in support of this U.S. Navy offensive. The fourth image in this album is from Page 2 of the same paper. It is a tax sale notice placed by my Great-Great Grandfather, Geneva's John Young Register. (My Grandpa Register was named after him. I'm named after him and my son is named after him)