CSS Florida Escapes Out of Mobile Bay

CSS Florida during the height of her career. Image source: US Navy History and Heritage Command After being partially outfitted in the Baha...

Defensive preparations at Mobile Bay

Water batteries on Mobile Bay. Source: State of Alabama photo archives. In prior posts, I introduced you to the port of Mobile, Alabama and ...

News and Events: Week of 2 September 2012

Ah, yes.  It's that time of year again.  The slight chill in the air.  Leaves falling on the ground.  Children playing in school yards a...

Blockade Running at Mobile Bay

Steam sloop USS Pocahontas capturing a blockade runner off Mobile Bay (source; Library of Congress archives): In a prior post ( 18 February ...

Mobile in the Confederacy

Images of Mobile, Alabama. From Harper's Weekly: After New Orleans, Mobile was the most important port on the Gulf coast for the Confed...

First Naval Engagement at Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay and the City of Mobile, Alabama, are seldom written or talked about in Civil War Naval History except in connection with the famo...