RARE COLLECTION OF NINE ALBUMEN PHOTOS OF FORT MORGAN IN 1864

RARE COLLECTION OF NINE ALBUMEN PHOTOS OF FORT MORGAN IN 1864

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Offered here is a wonderful lot of nine mounted photographs recorded around Fort Morgan following the Battle of Mobile Bay.

All the photographs are pasted to plain card-stock mounts, each measuring 9.5” x 7.75”. Each mount features printed information and a caption directly under the image. All have “Entered according to act of Congress, October 1st, 1864, by McPherson & Oliver, in the Clerk’s office, of the District Court of the U.S., for the Eastern District of Louisiana.”

Captions are as follows: No. 1, Fort Morgan, Front and East Side. No. 2, Fort Morgan, Front and West Side. No. 3. Fort Morgan Water Batteries, West Side. No. 4. Fort Morgan, South-East Bastion. No. 5. Fort Morgan Citadel, From South Side. No. 6. Fort Morgan Interior, West Side. No. 7. Fort Morgan Citadel, from North Side. No. 8. Fort Morgan from South-East Side. No. 9. Light House, Mobile Point.

Images illustrate the damage sustained during the siege. Photos are clear with good contrast; some slightly darker than others. Backs of all are blank. Mounts show slight water damage along bottom edge and all showing a stain on the back where some type of adhesive stamp was once attached.

The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Powell. Farragut's perhaps apocryphal order of "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!" became famous in paraphrase, as "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" As soon as the surrender of Fort Gaines Fort Powell was completed, Granger moved his force to invest Fort Morgan and cut it off from all communication with Mobile. The fort was subjected to a day-long bombardment on August 22 from 16 siege mortars, 18 guns of various sizes, and the fleet, the monitors and Tennessee at short range and the rest of the Union ships at long range. Inside the fort, Brig. Gen. Page feared that the bombardment would endanger his magazines, which contained 80,000 pounds of powder. That night the citadel caught fire. Feeling now that further resistance was useless, on August 23 Page ordered his remaining guns spiked or otherwise destroyed as far as possible. At 6 AM, he ordered the white flag raised, and the siege was over.

This is a rare and fine group of original photographs of damaged Fort Morgan.  [jet] [ph:L]

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