On this day in the Civil War, Confederate Fort Morgan falls to Federal troops.
The Union now controls Mobile Bay and closes one of the last major ports used for Southern blockade running.
Battle of Mobile Bay
(Credit: Library of Congress)
August 23, 1864
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