Battle of Mobile Bay Reenactment Draws Big Crowd to Fort Gaines
Hundreds of costumed re-enactors staged a mock battle at Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, marking 150 years since the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Remembering the Ironclad Tennessee’s Desperate Charge at Fort Morgan
As Mobile Bay's 150th anniversary approached, historians revisited the Confederate ironclad Tennessee's doomed charge near Fort Morgan in 1864.
The Boy Who Rowed Out to Farragut’s Fleet: A Mobile Family’s Memoir Begins
A memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, a Mobile-born nun, opens with an Irish immigrant on the docks, a wounded Confederate prisoner, and a boy summoned home by Admiral Farragut himself.