Battle of Mobile Bay
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![Map of Mobile Bay, 1861: shows Fort Gaines (lower center) on Dauphin Island, west of Fort Morgan, across the bay entrance.](/Images/godic/202412/23/Battle_of_Mobile_Bay_map1405.jpg")
![Admiral Franklin Buchanan, CSN](/Images/godic/202412/23/FranklinBuchanan1405.jpg")
![then-Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, USN](/Images/godic/202412/23/Admiral_Farragut21405.jpg")
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was an engagement of the American Civil War in which a Federal fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay.