Farragut closes Mobile Bay to blockade runners
August 5, 1864, Mobile Bay, Alabama.
- Date
- August 5, 1864
- Where
- Mobile Bay, Alabama
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 118 of 174
Mobile was the last important Confederate port on the Gulf east of the Mississippi and the centre of Gulf blockade running. Farragut's fleet ran the minefield, forced the ironclad CSS Tennessee to surrender and took the three forts within days. Union control of the lower bay completed the blockade there.
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