| By 1864 Mobile Bay in Alabama was the most important Confederate port left on the Gulf of Mexico during the American Civil War. The bay was protected by Fort Morgan, the ironclad Tennessee, and a string of mines (called torpedoes) in the narrow entrance passage to the bay. Leading the Union fleet, Admiral David Farragut sailed into Mobile Bay on this morning. His leading monitor, Tecumseh, hit a mine and sank, causing the leading wooden ship, Brooklyn, to drift in confusion. Farragut then ... |