Alabama (river)

Alabama river, 315 mi (507 km) long, formed in central Ala. by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers N of Montgomery, Ala., and flowing SW to Mobile, Ala., where it joins the Tombigbee to form the Mobile River; drains c.22,600 sq mi (58,500 sq km). In the 1800s the river played an important role in the development of the region's economy as a transporter of goods. It remains an important mover of farm products, lumber, and manufactured goods. The Cahaba River, its chief tributary, is the source of water for Birmingham, Ala.

Taliaferro, Harden E. (1818–75), Baptist minister and editor in North Carolina and Alabama, known for his volume of Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters (1859), describing the Old Southwest frontier on which he grew up, in the manner of Longstreet's Georgia Scenes. A second series of sketches, contributed under the pseudonym Skitt to the Southern Literary Messenger between 1860 and 1863, was issued in book form as Carolina Humor (1938).