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  2. Mobile campaign (1865) - Wikipedia

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    The Mobile Campaign was a series of battles fought during the civil war in the Federals' efforts to capture the city of Mobile, Alabama. From March 26 to April 9, 1865, 6,000 outnumbered Confederate soldiers held off 45,000 Union soldiers that were attacking from Fort Blakeley and Spanish fort.

  3. Timeline of Mobile, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Michael Thomason (2001), Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City, University Alabama Press, ISBN 9780817310653 Fitzgerald, Michael W. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890.

  4. Mobile in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama: Gill Press, 1953. ISBN 0-940882-14-0; Thomason, Michael. Mobile: the new history of Alabama's first city. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8173-1065-7; National Park Service: Teaching with Historic Places: Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay; Flotte's Notes on Mobile, Alabama, History

  5. History of Mobile, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish captured Mobile during the American Revolutionary War during the Battle of Fort Charlotte in 1780, and retained Mobile by the terms of the war-ending Treaty of Paris in 1783. Mobile was then part of the colonial province Florida Occidental for thirty years, controlled from Pensacola until 1813 when it was captured by American forces ...

  6. Battle of Mobile - Wikipedia

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    In 1781, the Spanish defeated a British and Waldecker counterattack at the Battle of Mobile (1781). In 1864, a Union fleet defeated a Confederate fleet at the Battle of Mobile Bay. In 1865, the Mobile Campaign (1865) consisted of the Battle of Spanish Fort and the Battle of Fort Blakely.

  7. Battle of Fort Blakeley - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Blakeley was the final major battle of the Civil War, with surrender just hours after Grant had accepted the surrender of Lee at Appomattox in the afternoon of April 9, 1865. [3] Mobile, Alabama, was the last major Confederate port to be captured by Union forces, on April 12, 1865. [4]

  8. I Grew Up In Mobile, Alabama, And These Are The Best ... - AOL

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    You might be from Mobile if you can finish this question: “Did you know Mardi Gras…”

  9. Alabama in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    At the southern coast, the Alabama ports remained open (with Union blockades, but guarded by forts, floating mines, and obstacle paths) for almost 4 years using blockade runners, until the Battle of Mobile Bay (Aug 1864) and the Battle of Fort Blakeley (April 1865) forced Mobile to surrender the last major Confederate port.