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{{ACWbattle
|name=Battle of Mobile Bay
|image=[[File:Kn00843.jpg|300px]]
|begin=2 August 1864
|end=23 August 1864
|place=Mobile Bay, Alabama
|theater=Naval / Lower Seaboard
|campaign=Operations in Mobile Bay (1864)
|result=Union Victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=
|commanders1=[[David G. Farragut]]<br/>Rear Admiral, USN<br/>[[Gordon Granger]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Franklin Buchanan]]<br/>Admiral, CSN<br/>[[Richard L. Page]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA
|strength1=4 ironclad monitors<br/>14 wooden warships<br/>5500-man invasion force
|strength2=1 ironclad ram ([[CSS Tennessee|CSS ''Tennessee'']])<br/>3 gunboats<br/>1500-man garrison stationed within:<br/>Fort Morgan<br/>Fort Gaines<br/>Fort Fisher
|casualties1='''328'''<br/>Killed: 151<br/>Wounded: 177<br/>1 ironclad sunk ([[USS Tecumseh|USS ''Tecumseh'']])
|casualties2='''1,500 est'''
*Fleet losses:<br/>Killed: 12<br/>Wounded: 19<br/>Captured:123, including 2 vessels
*Shore Losses:
**Fort Morgan<br/>Killed: 1<br/>Wounded: 3<br/>Captured: 600 est.
**Fort Gaines<br/>Captured: 864 est.
}}
A combined Union force initiated operations to close Mobile Bay to blockade running. Some Union forces landed on Dauphin Island and laid siege to Fort Gaines. On August 5, Farragut’s Union fleet of eighteen ships entered Mobile Bay and received a devastating fire from Forts Gaines and Morgan and other points.  After passing the forts, Farragut forced the Confederate naval forces, under Adm. [[Franklin Buchanan]], to surrender, which effectively closed Mobile Bay. By August 23, Fort Morgan, the last big holdout, fell, shutting down the port. The city, however, remained uncaptured.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm NPS.gov: NPS Battle Summaries]</ref> 

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