| Battle of Mobile Bay |
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Mobile Bay, Alabama
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| Theater: |
Naval / Lower Seaboard
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| Campaign: |
Operations in Mobile Bay (1864)
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| Combatants |
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4 ironclad monitors
14 wooden warships
5500-man invasion force
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1 ironclad ram (CSS Tennessee)
3 gunboats
1500-man garrison stationed within:
Fort Morgan
Fort Gaines
Fort Fisher
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| Casualties |
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1,500 est
- Fleet losses:
Killed: 12
Wounded: 19
Captured:123, including 2 vessels
- Shore Losses:
- Fort Morgan
Killed: 1
Wounded: 3
Captured: 600 est.
- Fort Gaines
Captured: 864 est.
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NPS Battle Summary
[1] A combined Union force initiated operations to close Mobile Bay to blockade running. Some Union forces landed on Dauphin Island and laid siege to Fort Gaines. On August 5, Farragut’s Union fleet of eighteen ships entered Mobile Bay and received a devastating fire from Forts Gaines and Morgan and other points. After passing the forts, Farragut forced the Confederate naval forces, under Adm. Franklin Buchanan, to surrender, which effectively closed Mobile Bay. By August 23, Fort Morgan, the last big holdout, fell, shutting down the port. The city, however, remained uncaptured.
| American Civil War battles within the State of Alabama |
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