Alabama River

Chapter One.

Montgomery, Alabama is beautifully situated on the Alabama River, near the center of the state.

Its situation at the head of navigation on the Alabama River, its connection by rail with important points, and the rich agricultural country with which it is surrounded, make it a great commercial center, and the second city in the state as regards wealth and population.

It is the capital, and consequently learned men and great politicians flock to it, giving it a society of the highest rank, and making it the social center of the state.

From 1858 to 1860, the time of which I treat in the present work, the South was in a most prosperous condition.

Had it entered his mind that the trunk contained the money he was after, the battle would have been a short one, but he knew nothing, positively nothing, which would lead him to suppose that this was the case, so he had nothing to do but to wait, and wait he did.

On Saturday, the thirtieth day of April, the steamer arrived at Mobile, and the passengers speedily disembarked.

At three in the afternoon a steamer started up the Alabama River for Montgomery, and on this boat Maroney took passage.

But even Mobile doesn't pull drinking water out of the rivers that come into the Mobile Bay.

Mobile River, Alabama River, Tensall River, and then there's a couple of other small ones.

But those are the three major rivers that are draining southern Alabama.

You know, they all come down into the Mobile Bay.

But once you move beyond the more populated parts of the city, the landscape changed quickly.

Selma sits along the Alabama River, surrounded by stretches of rural Dallas County, where highways give way to wooded areas, farmland, and long, less traveled roads.

And that meant that there was a lot of ground to cover.

But still, Tarasha's family searched wherever they could.

And I'm perfect.

another wild thing this is not only the third anniversary of our podcast but this is also the third anniversary of the montgomery alabama river brawl it was in a couple months ago with the same month about our podcast uh so this is the third year of the montgomery anniversary alabama river brawl so um And I think one of those rappers took, I can't remember his name, a couple days ago, he took that guy who was the major part of it, he took him on the show with him.

You know what I'm saying? So that was a couple days ago.

But, yo, that was

And my brother-in-law's family owned a large piece of land where they farmed cotton.

And they let me put a little single wide trailer down on the Alabama River.

And I did that.

That's where I would have been in 1996.

We couldn't go to the side, to the left or to the right.

We would have been going over into the Alabama River.

The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

What does this violence tell us about American democracy? It tells us that democracy cannot be measured only by constitutions, elections, courts, and patriotic declarations.

Okay, so what do you want to name it?

The Alabama River? The

Cumberland River? He wants to go to Tennessee.

His wife and his mother are from Tennessee.

Montgomery, Alabama.

Witnesses say a large brawl that broke out on the Alabama riverfront Saturday was fueled by alcohol and adrenaline.

Boston.

Down by the riverside.