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Confederate Navy Heroes.... August 4-5 1864 Federal troops fail to capture Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, one of the Confederate forts defending Mobile Bay. Adm. Farragut’s lead ironclad, the USS Tecumseh, is sunk by a torpedo (mine) with 150 men aboard and demonstrates the deadly effects of advances in Confederate technology. The brave crew of the Ironclad CSS Tennessee then engaged the remainder of the Northern fleet (17 ships including 3 additional ironclads). The armor on Tennessee gave her an advantage that enabled her to inflict more injury than she received, but she could not overcome the imbalance in numbers. She was eventually reduced to a motionless hulk, unable either to move or to reply to the guns of the Union fleet. Her Captain was forced to surrender. ~Robert~
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:00:00 +0000

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