...tance of not more than twenty miles from Spanish Fort, the heaviest of the fortifications to be attacked. That movement was begun on the 17th, when the Thirteenth Corps marched from Fort Morgan, on Mobile Point , and made its way slowly over a swampy region in heavy rains, consuming five or six days in the tedious and perilous journey. The Sixteenth Corps was already at the appointed rendezvous; having cro...