Field Notebook: Alabama
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Atlanta Ga. what I could see fit from the cars impressed me favorably. The city is said to have 100,000 inhabitants and is situated upon hilly country. As usual the negroes are driven into the valleys and the whiter inhabit the higher ground. The capitol is a square rather simple building with a tower much like that of of the National capitol. The golden on the top faces southward showing the north her back. Of Birmingham I saw nothing in the darkness of the night except numerous coke furnaces. On arriving in the morning of Thursday Nov 1st found myself over--