. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . rrison should be surrendered the next Fort Gaines came once more under the control of the United States. MOBILE BAY. 399 Aug. 9, 1864. A summons was sent to General Page, commanding Fort Morgan,who declined to surrender. The troops were transported from Dauphin Island and landed in NavyCove, four miles east of Fort Morgan, thus cutting off the retreat of thegarrison. From that point they advanced westward, closinground the fort, throwing up breastworks, mounting twenty-five heavy guns, and pl
. Redeeming the republic : the third period of the war of the rebellion, in the year 1864 . rrison should be surrendered the next Fort Gaines came once more under the control of the United States. MOBILE BAY. 399 Aug. 9, 1864. A summons was sent to General Page, commanding Fort Morgan,who declined to surrender. The troops were transported from Dauphin Island and landed in NavyCove, four miles east of Fort Morgan, thus cutting off the retreat of thegarrison. From that point they advanced westward, closinground the fort, throwing up breastworks, mounting twenty-five heavy guns, and placing sixteen mortars in position within five hun-dred yards of the fort. Ten days passed, the sharp-shooters the while keeping up such a firethat no Confederate would show his head above the intrenchments. Atdaylight the monitors, and all the vessels of the fleet, steameddown towards the fort, and all the cannon on shipboard, to-gether with the mortars and artillery on land, opened fire, continuing itthrough the day, sending a continuous stream of shot and shell upon the Aug. 22, iMikJk ?0M^ CAPTURE OF FORT a Sketch made at the time. fortification. The sun went down, but a portion of the guns continuedto thunder, a shell setting the barracks in the citadel on fire. Whenthe flames burst forth, once more the cannon of the fleet redoubledtheir firing. Within the fort the Confederate soldiers were throwingkegs of powder into the cisterns, fighting the flames, and spiking thecannon. With the dawn of the morning a white flag was flung out above the fort, whose walls had been honey-combed, whose guns had nearly all been disabled, together with sixty of the four hundred men of the Aug. 23, 1864. . \ . ••,-,! i t garrison. With its surrender, vessels running the blockadecould no longer enter Mobile. Once more the Stars and Stripes waved 400 REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC. over the fortification from which it had been removed when Alabamaseceded from the Union. The t
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