# Battle of Mobile Bay order of battle

The order of battle for the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.

## Union
### Navy

Commander : Rear Admiral David Farragut
14 wooden ships:
* USS Brooklyn (screw sloop) — Captain James Alden
* USS Galena (950-ton ironclad gunboat/screw steamer) — Lieutenant Commander Clark H. Wells
* USS Hartford (2900-ton screw sloop; Farragut's flagship) — Flag Captain Percival Drayton
* USS Itasca (gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander George Brown
* USS Kennebec (gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander William P. McCann
* USS Lackawanna (1240-ton steam screw sloop-of-war) — Captain John B. Marchand
* USS Metacomet (1173-ton Sassacus-class "double-ender" steam gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander James Edward Jouett
* USS Monongahela (screw sloop) — Commander James H. Strong
* USS Octorara (981-ton "double-ender" side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Green
* USS Oneida (screw sloop) — Commander J. R. Madison Mullaney
* USS Ossipee (1240-ton steam screw sloop) — Commander William E. Le Roy
* USS Port Royal (sidewheel steamer gunboat "double-ender") — Lieutenant Commander Bancroft Gherardi
* USS Richmond (screw sloop) — Captain Thornton A. Jenkins
* USS Seminole (screw sloop) — Commander Edward Donaldson
4 ironclad monitors:
* USS Chickasaw (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) — Lieutenant Commander George H. Perkins
* USS Manhattan (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) — Commander James W. Nicholson
* USS Tecumseh (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) — Commander Tunis Craven (sunk by torpedo)
* USS Winnebago (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) — Commander Thomas H. Stevens, Jr.

### Army

Commander : Military Division of West Mississippi — Major-General Edward R. S. Canby (not present)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
| Mobile Bay Land Forces   Major General Gordon Granger | Clark's Brigade (3rd Bde, 3rd Div, XIX Corps)   Colonel George W. Clark | 77th Illinois: Colonel David P. Grier 67th Indiana: Ltc Francis A. Sears 34th Iowa: Colonel George W. Clark 96th Ohio Infantry: Colonel Albert H. Brown |
| Mobile Bay Land Forces   Major General Gordon Granger | Bertram's Brigade (2nd Bde, Mobile Bay Land Forces)   Colonel Henry Bertram | 94th Illinois: Col John McNulta 20th Iowa: Col William M. Dye, Cpt Edward Coulter 38th Iowa: Ltc Joseph O. Hudnutt 20th Wisconsin: Ltc Henry A. Starr |
| Mobile Bay Land Forces   Major General Gordon Granger | Guppey's Brigade (3rd Bde, 2nd Div, XIX Corps)   Colonel Joshua James Guppey | 161st New York: Col William B. Kinsey 23rd Wisconsin: Ltc Edmund Jüssen |
| Mobile Bay Land Forces   Major General Gordon Granger | Engineer Brigade (XIX Corps)   Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Bailey | 96th U.S.C.T — Colonel John C. Cobb 97th U.S.C.T. — Colonel George D. Robinson 1st Pontoniers — Captain J.J. Smith |
| Mobile Bay Land Forces   Major General Gordon Granger | Artillery (XIX Corps)   Brigadier General Richard Arnold | 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery: Major William Roy 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery: Lt Walter S. Hotchkiss 17th Ohio Battery: Capt C. S. Rice Battery "A", 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery: Capt H. Borris, Lt Frank B. Fenton |
| Mobile Bay Land Forces   Major General Gordon Granger | Cavalry | 3rd Maryland Cavalry Company A, 2nd Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Company M, 14th New York Cavalry |

## Confederate
### Navy

Commander: Admiral Franklin Buchanan (captured)
1 ironclad:
* CSS Tennessee (1273-ton ironclad ram; Buchanan's flagship) — Captain James D. Johnston (captured)
3 gunboats:
* CSS Gaines (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander J. W. Bennett (grounded and abandoned)
* CSS Morgan (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Commander George W. Harrison
* CSS Selma (320-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Peter U. Murphey (captured)

### Army

| District | Post | Regiments and Others |
| District of the Gulf   Major-General Dabney H. Maury | Fort Morgan (garrison about 600)   Brigadier General Richard L. Page | 1st Alabama Artillery Battalion 21st Alabama Infantry (1 Company) 1st Tennessee Artillery Regiment |
| District of the Gulf   Major-General Dabney H. Maury | Fort Gaines (garrison about 600)   Col Charles D. Anderson | 21st Alabama Infantry (6 Companies) 1st Alabama Artillery Battalion (2 Companies) Pelham Cadets Reserves & Marines |
| District of the Gulf   Major-General Dabney H. Maury | Fort Powell (garrison about 140)   Lt Col James M. Williams | 21st Alabama Infantry (2 Companies) Culpeper's South Carolina Battery |