Battle of Mobile Bay | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of Mobile Bay


00:01:41 1 Mobile and Mobile Bay
00:04:34 2 Confederate defenses
00:04:44 2.1 Land
00:06:51 2.2 Sea
00:09:11 3 The attackers
00:09:20 3.1 Union Navy
00:11:02 3.2 Union Army
00:13:01 4 Opposing forces
00:13:10 4.1 Union
00:13:18 4.2 Confederate
00:13:26 5 Battle and siege
00:15:03 5.1 Passing the forts
00:18:05 5.2 Clash with CSS iTennessee/i
00:19:59 5.3 Forts Powell and Gaines
00:21:54 5.4 Siege of Fort Morgan
00:24:12 6 Incidents of the battle
00:24:21 6.1 Farragut lashed to the rigging
00:25:41 6.2 Damn the torpedoes
00:26:48 6.3 Army signals
00:27:57 6.4 Court martial of Brig. Gen. Page
00:28:37 7 Aftermath
00:31:09 8 See also



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The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864 was an 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. A paraphrase of his order, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" became famous. Farragut's actual order was "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!".
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.
Tennessee did not then retire, but engaged the entire Northern fleet. Tennessee's armor enabled her to inflict more injury than she received, but she could not overcome the imbalance in numbers.  She was eventually reduced to a motionless hulk and surrendered, ending the battle. With no Navy to support them, the three forts also surrendered within days. Complete control of lower Mobile Bay thus passed to the Union forces.
Mobile had been the last important port on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi River remaining in Confederate possession, so its closure was the final step in completing the blockade in that region.
This Union victory, together with the capture of Atlanta, was extensively covered by Union newspapers and was a significant boost for Abraham Lincoln's bid for re-election three months after the battle.