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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.
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. Main articles: Mobile, Alabama in the American Civil War and Alabama in the American Civil War Mobile grew substantially in the period leading up to the Civil War, when the Confederates heavily fortified it.
Mobile Bay during the American Civil War. Hernando de Soto explored the area of Mobile Bay and beyond in 1540, finding the area inhabited by indigenous Mississippian culture people. During this expedition his forces destroyed the fortified town of Mauvila, also spelled Maubila, from which the name Mobile was later derived. [3]
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.
The trail helps get visitors to Bentonville Battlefield out of their cars and onto the ground where Union and Confederate soldiers fought in March 1865. NC’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail grows a mile ...
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 ]
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