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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.
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
1864 map showing the eleven forts and other defenses. Viewed from the north; Kentucky is above the river, Indiana below. Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were designed to protect Louisville, Kentucky, as it was an important supply station for the Union's fight in the western theater of the war.
USS Tecumseh was a Canonicus-class monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War.Although intended for forthcoming operations against Confederate fortifications guarding Mobile Bay with Rear Admiral David Farragut's West Gulf Blockading Squadron, Tecumseh was temporarily assigned to the James River Flotilla in April 1864.
Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]
Magnolia is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in LaRue County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 524 as of the 2010 census . [ 3 ] The Magnolia area was settled in the 1780s primarily by Virginians seeking land following the American Revolution.
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Southern terminus of KY 2314 2.551: 4.105: KY 1552 east (Brush Creek Road) Western terminus of KY 1552 8.008: 12.888: KY 1547 south: Northern terminus of KY 1547 11.337: 18.245: KY 78 east (Bradfordsville Road) Western terminus of KY 78: Marion: Bradfordsville: 21.179: 34.084: KY 337 north (East Main Street) – Gravel Switch: Southern end of ...