The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-24
MR. YERBYS HISTORY
 OF GREENSBORO"

what is now the pusfness section Of Greensboro because the settlement waa unwittingly made upon sixteenth sec tion sohool land which was not open
 Before Troy which dates to 1877, there had been q settlement on the Marion Road three miles east of the the Russell Bruthers who were the first corners. This was In ISIS, and that year was the beginning of Greene. boro,s history, which gives R pyae-
 The prsdominanf moral idssis oi to. day would probably not have been understood or appreciated by the pioneers of that day; - ... shot and whisksy and he sold more whiskey than he did powder and shot It is not surprising then to learn that among the first ordinances passed was 1s horses up and down the main street of the town. When the town came to get d charter. the bill securing 1t fash, toned it after the charter. which had just been granted to the town of Mont
 MT. Yerby first deals with the history of the town as a whole. Then he takes inRstitntions nR sa onoa Its esriisss days are sS. families are mentioned and their places of settlement pointed out, but no heid DaGK ana EGtuE&0 Nu AEN tHS US0A W0 - genealogical work
 He gives fuii space to that period ot Remarkable prosperity in Alaoame. thAs ~ period which Baldwin has inlnortaiized in Fiush Times in Alabama
 Greensboro bore a fine part fn the great war between the states. The heroes she sent out are given place and prominence in the histcry and even the 1aaes of the pEiivates, ,,. are sss,seSldiy Sar tragic period in It's due proportion. If our people, have a fault in writ ing what history. that is written; n is the fault of oversnaaowIng all, all etss .ss war period. We owe something to the pioneers, although we need never take a leaf from the laurel of the Com solder q ,sss to py x s oas s ems civilization as well as to those who de. in history the great war period, an i'm. mense mountain cnain risine Gvs 2. land on the other side--a land which we apparently do not care to expiore or write about. The mountains are aws-inspiri1Sg ar and ss sp!sno,a; ,sao;raa9Sinx @ % to " great story some day as to be written of Reconstruetion iEl AlahaEla- Snr, Mr TsrNE e qss n hs. xTss' sre sas ter, in which nc describes the shooting of two federal soldiers in Reconstruc- fion times on the streets of Greensboro, the flight of the young man who enoe and killed one, the grief of the Feoeral captain who drew his sword ana lay Ing 1t across tn 6 dead body of Us com. rade. swore to avenge his death with the more more tragedy to it. in the presen- tation of the young man with moose about his neck while scores of soldiers howied for his death. The dramatic 10 furnished by the aFrtvsl Of the com nnanding colonel who came from Ma rion with gafloping horses, to order his men back to their quarters before they could do murder. Nor ts the story witho out romance. IL Ia supplied by the young lady for love of wnom, mitted the accused young man to es- cape.
 Gen. N. B. Forrest.
 We get a ilne and charactertstie pie ture of Gen. Nathan Bedford Fofrest in the book. General Forrest, As ie well known, built the Akron branch of the Southern after the war. There are score of good stories about Gen. eraI Forrest in West Alabama as yet unwritten. but none Is better than Mir. Yerbys account of how he ''psrsuaded" the Probats ate JEs yEHdgs Of Hale County ,ts sc tis" the county @ had prOmised for the SuiiS- ing Of the road.
 The book has it this way:
 "After the s60,000 worth of bonds had beer. printed, the Probate Judge refused to sign them, as required by law. General Forrest employed an att torney-at-law and demanded to be heard in Probate Court in regard to