Photo #: NH 83136 (complete caption)
"Entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut in to Mobile Bay.
August 5th 1864"
Chart of the action, prepared by RAdm. D.G. Farragut, Washington,
D.C., March 1st, 1865.
"Explanation of Diagram from the five stand points of the
Mobile fight." (printed in the lower left):
"No.1. Ships lashed together and running in from Sea, and
the monitors running out of "Monitor Bay" to take their
station inside or eastward of the line."
"No.2. Running up the channel in line of battle, and engaging
'Fort Morgan' leading ship 'Brooklyn' encounters what she supposes
to be 'torpedoes' monitor 'Tecumseh' is struck by one and sinks;
Brooklyn backs astern causing confusion; Flag Ship takes the
lead and passes up and engages the ram Tennessee and the gun
boats of the enemy."
"No.3. Running fight with the enemy's fleet which ends in
the capture of one, destruction of another, and the ram and one
gun boat take shelter again under Fort Morgan."
"No.4. Fleet passes up and are in the act of anchoring when
the ram Tennessee is seen coming out to attack them"
"No.5. Shows the manner the attack was made by the fleet
upon the ram by ramming her in succession and keeping up a constant
fire upon her at the same time."
"The points of contact are shown by the sketch in the north
east corner of the plate."
"De Kraft's flotilla bombarding Fort Powell." (in upper
left of the chart).
Ships are (as numbered in "Reference" list at left):
1. Tecumseh; 2. Manhattan; 3. Winnebago;
4. Chickasaw; 5. Brooklyn; 6. Octorara;
7. Hartford, Flag Ship; 8. Metacomet; 9. Richmond;
10. Port Royal; 11. Lackawanna; 12. Seminole;
13. Admiral's barge Loyal; 14. Monongahela; 15.
Kennebec; 16. Ossipee; 17. Itaska; 18. Oneida;
19. Galena.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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