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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.
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.
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
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.
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]
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 ...
The Battle of Spanish Fort took place from March 27 to April 8, 1865, in Baldwin County, Alabama, as part of the Mobile Campaign of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the Union victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay , Mobile nevertheless remained in Confederate hands.
The siege of Fort Morgan occurred during the American Civil War, as part of the battle for Mobile Bay, in the Confederate state of Alabama during August 1864. Union ground forces led by General Gordon Granger conducted a short siege of the Confederate garrison at the mouth of Mobile Bay under the command of General Richard L. Page.