Reference Sources for Selma and Dallas County Alabama History

Including Alabama And The Western Alabama Black Belt

Selma; Her Institutions And Her Men by John Hardy 1879. Hardy was a resident of Selma and a former editor of the local newspaper. His book is crammed with local politics, local business, biography and trivia. Transcription Project
IBSN 0-87152-275-6
Buy at Amazon.com, Limited availability

Memories of Old Cahaba Anna M. Gayle Fry. Published in 1905 by the author. Anna Gayle was raised in Cahaba and was present before, during and after the U.S. Civil War. She wrote from first hand knowledge of the people places and events of Cahaba.
Buy at Amazon.com, Limited availability

Battle for Selma by Sol H. Tepper. A blow by blow account of Nathan Bedford Forrest's attempt to defend Selma against an overwhelming attack by Major General James Harrison Wilson.
Buy at Amazon.com, Limited availability

Selma Queen City Of The Black Belt by Aliston Fitts III,
IBSN0-9623319-3-7, Clairmont Press (1989). Complete history of Selma with an in depth examination of antebellum and reconstruction politics.

Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster. by William O. Bryant, 1990.
ISBN 0817304681 Buy at Amazon.com, Limited availability

Selma Times Journal 1827 Centennial Edition. Calibrating 100 years of publication.

Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men: From 1540 to 1872. by Willis Brewer This is a remarkably detailed history of the state of Alabama.
Digitized by Google

<- PREVIOUS PAGE    |   INDEX    |    NEXT PAGE ->



site by Com'See