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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.
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)
Edward B. Young (c. 1835 – February 24, 1867) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born in about 1835 in Bergen, New Jersey, Young joined the Navy from that city.
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.
William M. Carr (November 25, 1829 – May 2, 1884) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born on November 25, 1829, in Baltimore, Maryland, Carr was living in that city when he joined the Navy in 1850. [1]
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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.