The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-25
A Hi.torx of Alabama.

Mobile Register. ,,
 The senators and representatives m Congress from Alabama have signed plea for a history of the State sug- gesting the name of MT. J. W. Du- Bose, of Birmingham. as the historian and requesting the trustees or the Department of Archives and History to take such steps under the laws or the State as may be necessary to ac- complish the work. It is proposed 10 make the history monumental ana compreh ensive one, and the labor con- nected with its writing will of neces- sity be very great Few men now survie who, possessing the literary qualifications for such a work, haSe aS history of the State under the old re- gime and for this reason MT. DuBose has been named by the Alabama rSp- iy familiar with the social. moral and political conditions which prevailed within the decade and half preced.. ing the outbreak of the sectional war. literature of Alabama, not only in con- nection with it's journals, but in series of publications. notably The Life and Times of William L. Yancy, Wheeler and the Army of Tennessee" which is practically a history of this important division of the Coptederate army from it's organtzationt tnf 1851 10
 
 1865. Among other literary works by Mineral Wealth of Aiabama." published in 1886; Twenty Years Commerce of Saaea%& paat of the is'oii united States treasury documents in 1SS6 "The History of Jefferson County" over TOO pages. 1888. and in addition a large number Of essays and magazines, in therpublic press and elsewhere relating. to the material wealth and social and spoliti- cal conditions of the State. He has also collected and filed in the archives manuscripts containing material for history of Alabama from 1861 to 1901. equal to some 900 printed pages, and Times of Governor William J?s sam ford" of over 400 pages; theS "Regi- mental History of Alabama Troops in the Confederate Army; appproxlmate- of the French Grant in Marengo and Greene Counties" and of the develop ments which followed that settlement from 1918 to 1865.
 In this work every county of the State Is asked to take deep interest in order to find a permanent record of the men and women it has produced wh0 are entitled to dist distinctioR' cdoE In In Pickett, which closes with the ad- mission of Alabama to the Union in 1919. and the large material which has been cOIlecIeQ Dy the trustees OL IHc Department of Archives and History under the efficient management of MT. Thomas M. owen. commissioner, there will be made available the vast amount of valuable matter which may be gath cred from Baldwin's Flush Times" Garrett's Public Men, Brewers Ala bama." Professor Eugene A. ~ Smith s Geological Survey" pr. Riley,s Guide Book" Judee William R. Smiths and Professor W. F. Wyman's Lectures; the works of Henry W. Hilliard, Jos eph Hodgson, William c. Brown, Saf- fold Berney. Joel W. DuBose, Hannis Taylor. Thomas J. Taylor'sl History of Madison County" Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, ex-Governor William c. oates, o. D. Streets Valley of the Ten nessee," and many other important published and unpublished local re- cords. In this general category we suppose will be included the works of Judge Alexander B Meek. who was editor of The Register in it's early years. and who was the author of sev- eral historical works. and the contri- buttons to historical literature by MT Peter I Hamilton of Mohile