- Date
- August 2, 1864 – August 23, 1864
- Location
- Mobile Bay, Alabama
- Result
- Union victory; Mobile Bay occupied by Union.; Fall of Fort Morgan to Union Forces in August 23, 1864
- Part of
- American Civil War
- Conflict
- U.S. Civil War
About the battle
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. Farragut's perhaps apocryphal order of "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!" became famous in paraphrase, as "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" The battle was marked by Farragut's seemingly-rash but successful run through a minefield that had just claimed one of his ironclad monitors, enabling his fleet to get beyond the range of the shore-based guns. This was followed by a reduction of the Confederate fleet to a single vessel, ironclad CSS Tennessee.
From the Wikipedia article “Battle of Mobile Bay”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Result, date and location from the article’s infobox and Wikidata.
