FLORENCE ALABAMA

Tennessee River, Oneil Bridge and Downtown Florence by Tyler Ross

Florence Alabama is the county seat of Lauderdale County, and has a population of 39,319.

Florence is the largest and principal city of the Metropolitan Statistical Area known as “The Shoals” (which includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia metropolitan areas in Colbert and Lauderdale counties).

Alabama Civil War Timeline: March 22, 1865

The Last Long Ride: Wilson’s Selma Raid

An officer at the scene later remembered, “Never can I forget the brilliant scene, as regiment after regiment filed gaily out of camp, decked in all the paraphernalia of war, with gleaming arms, and guidons given to the wanton breeze.”