5 AUGUST 1864 METACOMET vs. SELMA As RADM David Farragut forced Mobile Bay, the channel coursed only several hundred yards from the heavy Confederate guns of Fort Morgan. To protect his wooden warships, Farragut ordered smaller gunboats lashed to the starboard Read More
5 AUGUST 1864 CDR TUNIS CRAVEN, HERO OF MOBILE BAY To a boy from Portsmouth, NH, the life of the sea seemed natural, thus, when Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven was appointed a Midshipman on 2 February 1829, no one was surprised. Read More