. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^-•^■^^^^^■^^■^ :0 Kttmm utttli % ifnrtB. Government, and a number of well-armed wooden added immensely to the defensive strength of the city. General Gordon Granger landed on Dauphine Island, onthe 3d of August, 1864, with fifteen hundred men and movedup to Fort Gaines. Entrenchments were throMn up before theworks on the 4th, and arrangements made to cooperate withFarraguts fleet, which was to enter the harbor the next morn-ing, in order to close the jjort of Mobile and destroy the greatram Tennessee. At six oclock in
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^-•^■^^^^^■^^■^ :0 Kttmm utttli % ifnrtB. Government, and a number of well-armed wooden added immensely to the defensive strength of the city. General Gordon Granger landed on Dauphine Island, onthe 3d of August, 1864, with fifteen hundred men and movedup to Fort Gaines. Entrenchments were throMn up before theworks on the 4th, and arrangements made to cooperate withFarraguts fleet, which was to enter the harbor the next morn-ing, in order to close the jjort of Mobile and destroy the greatram Tennessee. At six oclock in the morning, Farragutspowerful fleet of eighteen vessels entered the main channel. The Federal ships were all thoroughbred war vessels; nota single one but what was built for the service. They swept onto tlie attack M^ith four monitors in the starboard column,close inshore. As they passed the fort and water batteries,where the Brooklyn and Richmond came very nearly goingagromid, they completely smothered the Confederate fire. The Tecumseh, under the command of Captain T. A. ], was sunk by a
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