This section gives information from Colonel Jeremiah Austill, "in relation to the 'Canoe Fight' & other engagements in which he was concerned in the memorable years 1813, 1814." Austill's account includes sketches of relevant forts and waterways in...
During the battle, which was fought from canoes on the Alabama River, Captain Sam Dale and three men (including Austill) defeated a Creek chief and ten warriors.
An Address delivered by Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, before the National Afro-American Council in McCauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky., Thursday Evening, July, 2, 1903.
In the first letter, written to Parker, Parkin discusses the growth of the Alabama Territory and its pending statehood: "We are so completely at the jumping off place of this world that we have nothing passing here that can interest any one at a...