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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 ...
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The Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864 resulted in victory for Union Admiral David Farragut and the fall of the key Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico.
In July, Admiral Farragut prepared to lead the Union Navy in an attack on Fort Morgan, which guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay. In the previous two years he had seized New Orleans and Galveston, and he was now ready to close the last major port still available to blockade runners on the Gulf of Mexico. Locating the Site.
The Battle of Mobile Bay (August 5–23, 1864) was a naval engagement of the American Civil War during which Union Admiral David Farragut succeeded in sealing off the port of Mobile, Alabama, from Confederate blockade runners.
The Battle of Mobile Bay began on the morning of August 5 when Confederate guns from Fort Morgan opened fire on Farragut's advancing fleet. Early action favored the Confederates when the ironclad monitor USS Tecumseh hit a torpedo, sinking to the bottom of the bay with 94 men.
On August 5, 1864, Rear Admiral David Farragut ’s Union fleet of eighteen ships entered Mobile Bay in two columns and received a devastating fire from Forts Gaines and Morgan at the mouth of the bay. The monitor USS Tecumseh sank early in the action.