... through all restraints, ravaged the town for awhile. Wilson now prepared to move eastward into, Georgia, by way of Montgomery. He. directed Major Hubbard to construct a pontoon bridge over the Alabama River, at Selma, which had been made brimful by recent rains, and then he hastened to Cahawba, the ancient capital of Alabama, a few miles down the stream, to meet General Forrest, under a fla...