Alabama History For Schools

Author : L. D. Miller
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ISBN 13 : 9781331324669
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book History of Alabama written by L. D. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Alabama: Adapted to the Use of Schools and for General Reading During twenty-five years connection with the schools of Calhoun county, as teacher, township trustee and county superintendent of education, the author was often impressed with the need of a history of Alabama adapted to the use of schools, and suitable for the reading people of the State. After two years continuous and earnest work in writing just such a book as he conceived to be desirable, he now presents this volume as the result of his labors. The colonial history and territorial history of no section of the Union have been more faithfully recorded than the happenings on Alabama soil by A. J. Pickett. It is unfortunate that this writer was cut off in the prime of his manhood, and did not live to bring his chronicles to a later date - even to 1861. For the lack of such a work many interesting events from 1820 to 1861 have doubtless passed into oblivion, and the present-day writer is utterly unable to fill out that period as it should be. Brewer and Garrett both proved themselves excellent biographers of the eminent men of Alabama, and the former deserves great credit for the Confederate War History which he gives in his County Notes, pages 107 to 585, and in "Part 2" of his "War Record" of Alabama, pages 589 to 705. His work appears the more laborious and meritorious when we call to mind that it was published before the Official Records, mentioned below. The "Official Records of the Rebellion," published by the United States Government, will ever prove a "treasure house" of the history of the Confederate war period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.