author
James Robert Maxwell
b. 1844
A Tuscaloosa writer, Confederate veteran, and local historian whose memoir preserves a vivid firsthand picture of 19th-century Alabama. His work blends personal memory with the everyday details of a changing Southern town.
1 Audiobook
A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.
by George Little, James Robert Maxwell
About the author
Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1844, he is best known for Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama, published in 1926. Library and catalog records also connect him with A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A., showing his strong interest in recording Civil War service and local memory.
Available records describe him as a longtime Alabama figure whose writing drew on personal experience, especially his memories of Tuscaloosa and the Civil War era. That makes his books useful not only as life writing, but also as windows into the social history of his community.
Some biographical details beyond his birth year appear in genealogy and library sources, but the clearest confirmed picture is of an Alabama memoirist and veteran who wrote late in life to preserve the people, places, and events he had known firsthand.