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Embracing Sketches of the Men Who Have Been Largely Instrumental in Shaping the Policies and in Molding the Conditions in the Rapid Growth of Alabama—Together With the Thrilling and Romantic Scenes With Which Our History is Resplendent
By B. F. RILEY, D.D., LL.D.
Author of the History of Conecuh County; Alabama, As It Is; History of the Baptists of Alabama; History of the Baptists of the Southern States East of the Mississippi; History of the Baptists of Texas, and The White Man’s Burden; Ex-President of Howard College, and sometime Professor of English Literature and Oratory in the University of Georgia.
“History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.”—Lamartine.
“All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.”—Croly.
“Biography is the only true history.”—Carlyle.