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The Tombigbee River flows through the history of Alabama and
Mississippi, connecting the Black Prairie cotton belt of northeast
Mississippi and west Alabama to Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. In
the early 1800s, it became the regional artery of commerce and
trade, with steamboats carrying cotton to the port of Mobile and
then returning upriver with farm supplies and consumer goods.
Today, the "rollodores," who rolled cotton bales down slides to the
decks of boats; the sunken logs, or "dead heads," that could sink a
boat if struck; and the "side-wheeler" model steamboats have all
but vanished. The Tombigbee River Steamboats brings this forgotten
era back to life through accounts of the steamboats, their crews
and their trials, such as the haunting story of the steamer Eliza
Battle, which burned and sank on a freezing, flooded river.
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