Excerpt from Sketches of Alabama History Contact with the people and years of experience in the school-room have demonstrated to the author the need of a convenient volume giving an outline of the leading facts and impulses of Alabama history. The desire to supply this need has induced him to make this collation and to offer it to the public. If it will help to stimulate investigation and to foster a genuine interest in the history of Alabama, it will serve a useful purpose. 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.