. Historic towns of the Southern States. the riverand land at once ; and so he withdrew to Mer-idian, Blakeley was the last great battle ofthe war. The Federal troops occupied Mobile imme-diately upon the surrender by Mayor Sloughon April 12th, camping in the suburbs, onGovernment Street and elsewhere. One un-fortunate result was the terrible explosion onMay 25th, from careless handling of ammuni-tion in a warehouse on Water and LipscombStreets. There were hundreds killed, morethan $700,000 of warehouse property wasdestroyed, and the whole business sectionof the city was injured. Such was the
. Historic towns of the Southern States. the riverand land at once ; and so he withdrew to Mer-idian, Blakeley was the last great battle ofthe war. The Federal troops occupied Mobile imme-diately upon the surrender by Mayor Sloughon April 12th, camping in the suburbs, onGovernment Street and elsewhere. One un-fortunate result was the terrible explosion onMay 25th, from careless handling of ammuni-tion in a warehouse on Water and LipscombStreets. There were hundreds killed, morethan $700,000 of warehouse property wasdestroyed, and the whole business sectionof the city was injured. Such was the returnof peace ! Mobile, since the Civil War, offers a fruitfulfield for study. The few flush years, whencommerce first revived ; Reconstruction, withslaves over masters; bond issues from 1870on railroads that were never built, resulting inbankruptcy in 1879; ^^^ panics of 1873 ^^^ 0/ 76 Mobile 1893, the first of which depressed everything,while the other showed that Mobile had be-come sound again ; new railroads and commer-cial o-rowth. m every line, con-sequent on theGovernmentscutting the shipchannel, twenty-three feet deep,through the bars AUGUSTA EVANS Wrt-SON, to the lower ba)- ; the orrow- 0 ino- 0 rivalry of the Gulf port with Eastern :rade to Latin harbors for the WesternAmerica and even Europe; the passing ofthe once dreaded yellow fever; the goodrelations which have existed between thenegroes and whites since they were relieved ofoutside interference ; the Cuban War, with itsAmerican soldiers (some from Mobile) en-camped on ground once occupied by Confed-erates, and the picturesque embarkation oftroops for Santiago ; extensive municipal im-provements ; impressive public structures, such Mobile o// as the Y. M. C. A. Building, new hotels, andthe Semmes statue ; the advance of literature,also, which has kept Augusta Evans as , and added Madame Chaudron, FatherRyan, T. C. De Leon, Amelie Rives, HannisTaylor, and others :—these things are impor-tant, but are
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