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.
Battle of Mobile Bay Stamp to Be Dedicated at the History Museum of Mobile
The History Museum of Mobile prepared to host a first-day-of-issue ceremony for a postage stamp marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay, with the postmaster general set…
150th Battle of Mobile Bay Commemoration Aims for Education and an Economic Boost
With thousands of visitors expected at Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, organizers of the three-day 150th Battle of Mobile Bay commemoration hoped the coastal event would deliver both an economic…
Fairhope Artist to Complete Trio of Battle of Mobile Bay Paintings at Fort Morgan’s 150th
As Fort Morgan prepared for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Fairhope artist Dean Mosher readied a new portrait of Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan to complete a…
Stockton Family Brings New Life to 1911 Farmhouse on Historic Bryant Property
A retired Robertsdale native has spent nine years restoring a century-old farmhouse and its outbuildings on a 60-acre Stockton property.
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.