http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/170629.php The Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864: U.S.S. Hartford brushes past the Confederate ram Tennessee. Admiral Farragut is in the rigging of the Hartford at upper right. A colleague recently recommended to me this book: ">West Wind, Flood... en-us http://www.technochitlins.com/archives/2006/04/on_this_day_in_1.html In 1865, Mobile Alabama surrendered to Union troops, ending her part in the Civil War. (I don't know if anyone cares, I just thought it was interesting.) Mobile grew substantially in the period leading up to the American Civil War...