. The blockade and the cruisers / y James russell Soley . GTJI/F OF MEXTCO Entrance to Mobile Bay. tected by two forts, one of them, Fort Morgan, a work ofconsiderable strength. But as the entrance of the channelwas five miles from the forts, the blockading squadron could 134 THE BLOCKADE AND THE CRUISERS. take a position close to the bar; and the blockade was re-duced to a limited area. At this j>oint, therefore, it couldbe maintained more effectually and by a smaller force thanat almost any other place of trade on the coast. There were two other entrances to the bay, one to thewestward, w
. The blockade and the cruisers / y James russell Soley . GTJI/F OF MEXTCO Entrance to Mobile Bay. tected by two forts, one of them, Fort Morgan, a work ofconsiderable strength. But as the entrance of the channelwas five miles from the forts, the blockading squadron could 134 THE BLOCKADE AND THE CRUISERS. take a position close to the bar; and the blockade was re-duced to a limited area. At this j>oint, therefore, it couldbe maintained more effectually and by a smaller force thanat almost any other place of trade on the coast. There were two other entrances to the bay, one to thewestward, with so little water as to be comparatively unim-portant, and the other to the northeast, extending, like theBeach Channel at Charleston, close along the shore, and ter-minating directly under Fort Morgan, just as the northeastchannel at Charleston terminated at Fort Moultrie. Thoughit was less than twelve feet deep at low water, and thereforedoes not appear on the map, it could be used, when thetide served, by many of the blockade-runners ; and whenthey
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