On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, some sixteen thousand Union troops launched a bold, coordinated Assault on the three-mile-long line of earthworks known as Fort Blakeley.
Historian Mike Bunn takes readers into the chaos of those desperate moments along the waters of the storied Mobi.
The charge was one of the grand spectacles of the Civil War, the climax of a weeks-long campaign that resulted in the capture of Mobile--the last major Southern city to remain in Confederate hands.
On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, some sixteen thousand Union troops launched a bold, coordinated Assault on the three-mile-long line of earthworks known as Fort Blakeley