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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.
Fort Morgan, also known as Fort Bowyer, is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is west of Gulf Shores on Mobile Point . Mobile Point extends from Gulf Shores to the west, towards historic Fort Morgan at the tip of the peninsula.
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.
The Mobile Point Range Lights were a series of lighthouses at the entrance to Mobile Bay, at Mobile Point on the tip of the Fort Morgan peninsula, near Mobile, Alabama, United States. The first lighthouse was built as a landfall light by June 1822 at a cost of $9,995. [1] The lighthouse was a conical brick masonry tower, 40 feet (12 m) tall. It ...
Fort Morgan can apply to any one of several places in the United States: Fort Morgan (Alabama), a fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay; Fort Morgan, Alabama, a nearby community; Fort Morgan (Colorado), a frontier military post located in present-day Fort Morgan, Colorado; Fort Morgan, Colorado, a city located in Morgan County
It is located in Baldwin County, Alabama. At its western tip is Fort Morgan, which faces Fort Gaines sitting across the inlet to the Mobile Bay, on Dauphin Island. Along the point is the unincorporated community of Fort Morgan, Alabama. [1]
Mobile Bay (/ m oʊ ˈ b iː l / moh-BEEL) is a shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side.
Fort Morgan was completed in 1834 and was used by Confederate forces during the Battle of Mobile Bay. This battle resulted in the Union Navy's Admiral David Farragut taking Mobile Bay and sealing off the Port of Mobile to Confederate shipping. [24] 16 † Fort Toulouse Site-Fort Jackson: Fort Toulouse Site-Fort Jackson