South Carolinian William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the leading author of the antebellum South, chose Alabama

Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia

William Gilmore Simms

South Carolinian William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the leading author of the antebellum South, chose Alabama as the setting for two novels and one short story and also helped Albert James Pickett write his History of Alabama (1851).