...arrival from Pensacola, his troops, and particularly Hawkins's negro division, had held Fort Blakely, as the works there were called, in a state of siege; and, for the first four days of the siege of Spanish Fort , it had been closely invested. It was now determined to carry it by assault, and then push on to Mobile. By the fall of Spanish Fort, the water communications of Blakely, with the city, had ...