THE ALABAMA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY: Vol. 1 No. 1 SPRING ISSUE 1930

CONTENTS

Announcement, Governor Bibb Graves.. ……….. …._ ………. ______________ 5-6

Alabama, Yellowhammer, a Poem, Elisabeth Winter Watts ______ 7

Alabamian’s Creed, Walter B. Jones _____________ ft “~ -»—-••-—••—— ——•——«—— ——ta«.—«. «•.»«.«,_ _^.^—-.——w. –w U

Mounds Near Moundville, Illustration _________________________________________ 10

Rich Archaeological Remains of the Moundbuilders,

Marie Bankhead Oiven.—

Alabama! Yellowhammer! Historical Sketch,

Elizabeth Winston Sheehan _____________________________________________________ 27-33

The Ballad of the Yellowhammer, Elizabeth Winston Sheehan…. 34-35

Governor Wm. J. Sam ford, Illustration ____ ._ ____ : __________________________ 36

William James Samford, a Sketch, M. B. O… ______________________________ 37-38

Thomas Chalmers McCorvey, a Sketch, M. B. O _________________________ 39-40

The Highland Scotch Element in the Early Settlement of

Alabama, T. C. McCorvey, LL.D __________________________________________ 41-49

Game and Fisheries Conserved in Alabama, Walter J. Knabe…. 50-62

Recollections of the Plantations, John Witherspoon DuBose _____ 63-75

March, April, May, Poems, Kate Slaughter McKinney _____________ 75

Mobile County Cajans, Laura Prances Murphy… _________________ _____ 76-86

Admiral Raphael Semmes, a Sketch, M. B. 0 ______ ….. _________________ „ 87-89

Alfred Iverson Branham, a Sketch, M. B. 0 ______________________________ 90

The Sinking of the Alabama, Alfred Iverson Branham ________ . ___ 91-98

Thomas Jones Taylor, a Sketch, M. B. 0 ______________________________________ 99-100

Early History of Madison County, Thomas Jones Taylor ___________ 101-111

The Alabama, a Poem, Miss Zitella Cocke ___________________________________ 112

Albert James Pickett, a Sketch, M. B. O __________________ ,___ ______________ 113-115

Historic Homes, Maud Martin Butler _______________________________ ,. ____________ .116-119

Butterflies, a Poem, Miss Zitella Cocke __________________ ___________________ 120

The Supreme Court of Alabama, Its Organization and Sketches

of Its Chief Justices, John C. Anderson _________________________ „ ____ 121-123

History Repeated in a “Nineteenth Century Night/’

Mildred Reynolds Saffold _____ ___________________________________ 124-127

How the Violets Blow, a Poem, Miss Zitella Cocke……. ….. _______ 128

Mobile’s Azalea Trail, Sam H. Lackland ____________ . ________________________ 129-130

The Iberville Historical Society of Mobile, Erwin Craighead _____ 131-137

Noon in Barbour County, a Poem, Lawrence Lee _______________________ 138

Early History of Tuscaloosa, Thomas P. Clinton _______________________ 139-147

Genealogical Department, Mary R. Mullen ___________________________________ 148-149

Editorial, (Mrs.) Marie Baukhead Owen _________________________