Alabama
[,ælə'bæmə]
Definition
(noun.) the Muskhogean language of the Alabama.
(noun.) a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
(noun.) a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River.
(noun.) a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama; 'the Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy'.
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Examples
- General Sherman, leaving a force to hold Atlanta, with the remainder of his army fell upon him and drove him to Gadsden, Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 31st of January I countermanded the orders given to Thomas to move south to Alabama and Georgia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I now ordered him to discontinue his work of repairing roads and to move on with his whole force to Stevenson, Alabama, without delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In Fig. 257 is seen the great 14,000-ton hydraulic press-forge squeezing into shape a port armor plate for the battleship Alabama. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- General Canby is preparing a movement from Mobile Bay against Mobile and the interior of Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He died September 14, 1898, at his country home in Citronelle, Alabama, a victim of tuberculosis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was distributed widely over the country, the greatest producers, after Pennsylvania, being Illinois, West Virginia, Ohio, Alabama and Colorado. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He entered Meridian on the 14th of the month, the enemy having retreated toward Demopolis, Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the morning of the 21st we took the train for the front, reaching Stevenson Alabama, after dark. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Before your last request to have Thomas make a campaign into the heart of Alabama, I had ordered Schofield to Annapolis, Md. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These successes practically opened to us the Alabama River, and enabled us to approach Mobile from the north. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Walker's _unattached_: 5th Alabama Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I had so little money left that I nearly starved at Decatur, Alabama, and had to stay three days before going on north to Nashville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With Fort Henry in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 23d of October I learned of Pemberton's being in command at Holly Springs and much reinforced by conscripts and troops from Alabama and Texas. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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