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Walking the Battlefield – Fort Blakely, Mobile, Alabama
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Sheritta Bitikofer… On the evening of April 9, 1865, the same day as Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, another battle was taking place on the opposite side of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles
Tagged 34th Iowa, 37th Illinois, 97th Illinois, Alabama, Army of West Mississippi, Blakely, Christopher Andrews, Dabney H. Maury, District of the Gulf, earthworks, Edward R. S. Canby, Fort Blakely, Historic Blakely State Park, Medal of Honor, Mobile Bay, Patrick H. Pentzer, Randall Gibson, Spanish Fort, St. John R. Liddell
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Book Review: “The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865”
When Ulysses S. Grant looked back at the 1865 Mobile Campaign, he had an uncharitable view of the victory, writing that it was “eminently successful, but without any good result. Indeed much valuable property was destroyed and many lives lost … Continue reading
The Last Major Engagement of the War: The Fall of Fort Blakely
With the Fall of Spanish Fort on April 8, the lone defense of Mobile now fell upon Gen. St. John Liddell and his garrison of around 4,000 men at Fort Blakely, a series of fortifications around the small town of … Continue reading
Posted in Battles
Tagged Bryan THomas, Claudius Sears, Edward Canby, Francis Cockrell, Frederick Steele, John Liddell, Mobile, Spanish Fort, USCT, William Pile
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“The uproar of the damned was about us”: The Battle of Spanish Fort
The situation was grim across what was left of the Confederacy on April 8, 1865. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was nearly cut off, and along the banks of Mobile Bay, a remnant of the Army of Tennessee faced … Continue reading
