Description ort Powell was a small Civil War Fort built on an oyster reef on the north side of Grants Pass in Alabama.
This history of the defense of the Western approach to Mobile Bay details the reasons.
Yet it served its purpose for a time and its history, which includes the history of those who built, defended and attacked it, deserves to be told.
Fort Powell survived one attack from the front but was not ready for the attack from the rear and was blown up by its own garrison.
Description ort Powell was a small Civil War Fort built on an oyster reef on the north side of Grants Pass in Alabama