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The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines and Powell.
A map of Mobile Bay and surroundings during the American Civil War. Mobile, Alabama, was an important port city on the Gulf of Mexico for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Mobile fell to the Union Army late in the war following successful attacks on the defenses of Mobile Bay by the Union Navy.
According to Paul Brueske, author of The Last Siege, "Had the Federals known how few men defended Mobile, they could have then captured the city with minimal losses." [3] However, after the battle of Mobile Bay, Confederate General Maury, fearing an attack from the Federals, asked his superiors for reinforcements. Confederate General Lidell was ...
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.
Union forces under the command of Major Genereral Gordon Granger landed on Dauphin Island, about 7 miles from Fort Gaines, on August 3, and moved against Fort Gaines guarding the western edge of Mobile Bay. Granger's force numbered about 1,500, [3] while 818 troops under the command of Confederate Colonel Charles D. Anderson garrisoned the fort.
Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States.Named for American Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan, it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer, an earthen and stockade-type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812.
In 2003, a replica of a Confederate submarine that was built in Mobile, CSS H. L. Hunley, was moved to the park. [6] Hurricane Katrina caused more than $7 million in damage to Battleship Memorial Park on August 29, 2005. [4] It almost completely destroyed the aircraft pavilion. It shifted Alabama at anchorage and gave her an eight-degree list ...
Mobile Bay Land Forces Major General Gordon Granger. Clark's Brigade (3rd Bde, 3rd Div, XIX Corps) Colonel George W. Clark. 77th Illinois: Colonel David P. Grier; 67th Indiana: Ltc Francis A. Sears; 34th Iowa: Colonel George W. Clark; 96th Ohio Infantry: Colonel Albert H. Brown; Bertram's Brigade (2nd Bde, Mobile Bay Land Forces)