Mobile_Bay_order_of_battle
The order of battle for the Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
Navy
Commander : Rear Admiral David Farragut
14 wooden ships:[1]
- USS Brooklyn (screw sloop) — Captain James Alden
- USS Galena (950-ton ironclad gunboat/screw steamer) — Lieutenant Commander Clark H. Wells
- USS Hartford (2900-ton screw sloop; Farragut's flagship) — Flag Captain Percival Drayton
- USS Itasca (gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander George Brown
- USS Kennebec (gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander William P. McCann
- USS Lackawanna (1240-ton steam screw sloop-of-war) — Captain John B. Marchand
- USS Metacomet (1173-ton Sassacus-class "double-ender" steam gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander James Edward Jouett
- USS Monongahela (screw sloop) — Commander James H. Strong
- USS Octorara (981-ton "double-ender" side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Green
- USS Oneida (screw sloop) — Commander J. R. Madison Mullaney
- USS Ossipee (1240-ton steam screw sloop) — Commander William E. Le Roy
- USS Port Royal (sidewheel steamer gunboat "double-ender") — Lieutenant Commander Bancroft Gherardi
- USS Richmond (screw sloop) — Captain Thornton A. Jenkins
- USS Seminole (screw sloop) — Commander Edward Donaldson
- USS Chickasaw (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) — Lieutenant Commander George H. Perkins
- USS Manhattan (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) — Commander James W. Nicholson
- USS Tecumseh (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) — Commander Tunis Craven (sunk by torpedo)
- USS Winnebago (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) — Commander Thomas H. Stevens, Jr.
Army
Commander : Military Division of West Mississippi — Major-General Edward R. S. Canby (not present)
More information Division, Brigade ...
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Mobile Bay Land Forces
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Clark's Brigade (3rd Bde, 3rd Div, XIX Corps)
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| Bertram's Brigade (2nd Bde, Mobile Bay Land Forces)
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| Guppey's Brigade (3rd Bde, 2nd Div, XIX Corps)
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| Engineer Brigade (XIX Corps)
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| Artillery (XIX Corps)
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| Cavalry |
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Navy
Commander: Admiral Franklin Buchanan (captured)
1 ironclad:
- CSS Tennessee (1273-ton ironclad ram; Buchanan's flagship) — Captain James D. Johnston (captured)
3 gunboats:
- CSS Gaines (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Commander J. W. Bennett (grounded and abandoned)
- CSS Morgan (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Commander George W. Harrison
- CSS Selma (320-ton side-wheel gunboat) — Lieutenant Peter U. Murphey (captured)
Army
More information District, Post ...
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District of the Gulf
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Fort Morgan (garrison about 600)
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| Fort Gaines (garrison about 600)
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| Fort Powell (garrison about 140)
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- "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships". Naval History & Heritage Command. 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.; see articles for each ship