Tombigbee River

Cypress swamps and bottomland hardwood forests occur in some of the larger floodplains, such as these along the Tombigbee River in Ecoregion 65p.

Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA) 2008

You went through from Jackson ... the Tombigbee River on the south until you got to the four-lane highway.

Oral History Interview with Bert Nettles, July 13, 1974. Interview A-0015. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

As you came down from Tuscaloosa, if you remember crossing the Tombigbee River?

Oral History Interview with Bert Nettles, July 13, 1974. Interview A-0015. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

I have only to pint you, Mr. President, and gentlemen of this lyceum, to his quiet and retired home at _Sandoval_, on the banks of the Tombigbee River, whar he now resides, conscious of his private worth and of the glorious achievements heaped upon his grateful brow by his aged countrymen; and allow me to call your attention to the fact that General Douglas never fit the battle of New Orleans.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

Tallahatchie, Coldwater, Sunflower, Big Black, and Womochitto Rivers; in the middle part the Pearl, which empties into Lake Borgne, and in the eastern part, the Tombigbee River, the Chicksawha River, and the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Upon reaching the Tombigbee River he built a clapboard house in five days, cleared land from its canebrake, planted corn with a sharpened stick, and in spite of ravages from bears and raccoons gathered a hundred and fifty bushels from six acres.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

One of these formed a crescent across south-central Alabama, with its western horn reaching up the Tombigbee River into northeastern Mississippi.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

Once upon a time the special agent and I started down the Tombigbee River with a steamboat load of government cotton -- some six hundred bales.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878

Upon the conclusion of his first speech, which possibly referred to the improvement of the Tombigbee River, he modestly remarked:

Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective 1874

The same authority donated to the emigrants lands about McIntosh's Bluff, Fort St. St.phens, and along Bassett's Creek, in the region of the Tombigbee River.

The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870