Selma AL

Wikipedia says: Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. [It is l]ocated on the banks of the Alabama River.

Selma was a trading center and market town during the antebellum years of King Cotton in the South. It was also an important armaments-manufacturing and iron shipbuilding center for the Confederacy, as well as providing a hospital converted from a Masonic university, during the Civil War, surrounded by miles of earthen fortifications. The Confederate forces were defeated during the Battle of Selma, in the final full month of the war.