Luckily, I recently discovered two letters written by Tuscaloosa school teacher Barbara Little during the Civil War. One of them was written on July 22, 1861, one day after the Battle of Bull Run. Before that first major battle of the Civil War, on July 11, 1861, Dominique D. Fiquet, Tuscaloosa native and Harvard Law School graduate, was  one of the first Confederates ever captured by the Union Army in Northern Virginia, when he was apprehended near Fairfax Station, Virginia. Learning this has confirmed the events in Tuscaloosa in July of 1861 which were described in Mrs. Little's letter. https://books.google.com/books?id=FIOACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43&lpg=PT43&dq=%22D.D.+Fiquet%22&source=bl&ots=j19kpYGu4s&sig=ACfU3U2Kit2UZ6zbHAkSZvPupAITh6uuLA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXgKOI05nlAhXCc98KHcQwCLMQ6AEwBHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22D.D.%20Fiquet%22&f=false