In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Alabama () is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

Alabama is the 30th-most extensive and the 23rd-most populous of the 50 United States.

Alabama is unofficially nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird.

The capital of Alabama is Montgomery.

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Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

The climate of Alabama is humid subtropical.

The Alabama River, in the U. S. state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about north of Montgomery.

The course of the Alabama is very meandering.

After the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, the principal tributary of the Alabama is the Cahaba River, which is about long and joins the Alabama River about below Selma.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

The Alabama is navigable throughout the year.

* 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.

The Apollo 16 command module Casper is on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

The Civil Rights Memorial is a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama to 40 people who died in the struggle for the equal and integrated treatment of all people, regardless of race, during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

One state, Alabama, closes its fiscal year on September 30, and all cities in the state, with one exception, also close fiscal years on September 30.

Southeast of the Appalachian Valley region, the Piedmont Plateau also crosses the Alabama border from the N. E.

Cave-dwelling species are also very fragile, and often, a particular species found in a cave may live within that cave alone, and be found nowhere else in the world, such as Alabama cave shrimp.

Mobilian is a pidginized form of Choctaw and Chickasaw ( both Western Muskogean ) that also contains elements of Eastern Muskogean languages such as Alabama and Koasati, colonial languages including Spanish, French, and English, and perhaps Algonquian and / or other languages.

Smith has also been honored with induction into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cal Poly.

He also recorded his negative impressions of slavery, later published as Letters from Alabama ( 1859 ).

In a mockery of William Brevard Hand, a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled secular humanism as a religion, the musician Frank Zappa, who was also a free speech advocate, established the " Church of American Secular Humanism ".

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

In the United States it is found most notably in California, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington but also in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont wine.

He also passed a resolution honoring James J. Reeb, a Unitarian minister who was beaten to death in Selma, Alabama by a segregationist mob.

The center also has employees in California and Alabama.

He has also been cast in a film based on the Maersk Alabama hijacking as Captain Richard Phillips.

( Sandy soil is also common in southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and in western and southern Florida.

Downtown also contains many state and local government buildings, including the Alabama State Capitol.

The area is also home of the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, a park which contains the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Blount Park also contains the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Carolyn Blount Theatre.

The Everett Hawks, Alabama Steeldogs, and the Bakersfield Blitz also ceased operations.

Miller also appeared on both WAPI ( Birmingham, Alabama ) and WSFA radio ( Montgomery ), promoting the activities of civil service women aircraft mechanics employed at Maxwell.

He was also a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Alabama ( Psi chapter ).

The Seminole Indians, descendants of the Creek tribe of Alabama and Georgia who resisted forced relocation to Indian Territory also camped in various parts of Volusia County.

Morgan County is also a part of the North, Northwest, and North-Central regions of Alabama.

There is also one switching and terminal railroad, Alabama Warrior Railway.

There are also many more people in Alabama of Scots-Irish origins than are self-reported.