Named Entity Results, Mobile Bay (Alabama, United States)

The fight in Mobile bay. The following is a letter from the late executive officer of the Tennessee, which we publish as the first account of the fight in Mobile bay from any person who was on board that ship during the action: United States Frigate Potomac,Pensacola bay, August 12, 1864. Notwithstanding you must have heard of the loss of our dear old ship, and of my becoming a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, I fancy that a short note from me would not be unwelcome, nor be consiMobile bay from any person who was on board that ship during the action: United States Frigate Potomac,Pensacola bay, August 12, 1864. Notwithstanding you must have heard of the loss of our dear old ship, and of my becoming a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, I fancy that a short note from me would not be unwelcome, nor be considered superfluous at this time. We were certainly under the heaviest fire that ever a ship received since the war began. Three strong and formidable iron-clads, one of them certainly our equal, and fourteen regular men-of-war, were playing on us at the closest possible quarters, with nine, eleven and fifteen-inch solid shot, and with apparently no intermission from the time we regularly engaged the fleet until the time of surrender, a period of probably an hour. We met them as they entere