----- Original Message ----- From: "bob wise" <bwise@basinlink.com> To: <ALBARBOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:39 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Spring Hill/Brazil > I recently saw a new book about the Southerners who headed for Brazil > after the war. One of the several group leaders was Col William Norris > and his son Robert of Spring Hill, Al. Are there other Spring Hills in > Al besides the one in Barbour Co.? Anyway, if anyone has lost some > Norris kin maybe that's where they went. -bob > PS- As we might expect, their story was nothing like we've been told. > Of the thousands who went - only one is recorded to have owned slaves. > So that's not why the went; they just weren't going to abide what was > going to happen to their homeland. The name of the book is > "Confederados" > >