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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 26, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Mobile Bay (Alabama, United States) or search for Mobile Bay (Alabama, United States) in all documents.
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Admiral Farragut's official report of the fight in Mobile bay.
Admiral Farragut has written his official report of the naval fight in Mobile bay.
The most interesting part of it is that referring to the capture of the ram Tennessee.
It says:
Having passed the forts and dispersed the enemy's gunboats, I had ordered most of the vessels to anchor, when I perceived the ram Tennessee standing up for this ship; this was at forty-five minutes past eight. I was not long in comprehending hisMobile bay.
The most interesting part of it is that referring to the capture of the ram Tennessee.
It says:
Having passed the forts and dispersed the enemy's gunboats, I had ordered most of the vessels to anchor, when I perceived the ram Tennessee standing up for this ship; this was at forty-five minutes past eight. I was not long in comprehending his intentions to be the destruction of the flagship.
The monitors and such of the wooden vessels as I thought best adapted for the purpose were immediately ordered to attack the ram, not only with their guns, but bows on at full speed.
And then began one of the fiercest naval combats on record.
The Monongahela, Commander Strong, was the first vessel that struck her, and in doing so carried away his own iron prow, together with the cutwater, without apparently doing his adversary much injury.
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