Alabama 1st Battalion Artillery (Confederate)
01/03/1861
Organized - Alabama 1st Battalion Artillery - Alabama
02/08/1864
Battle - Mobile Bay - Mobile Bay, Alabama
Mobile Bay
In the late summer of 1864, a Union combined Army-Navy force began operations to close Mobile Bay to blockade-running vessels from the port city of Mobile, Alabama. On August 3, infantry and cavalrymen under Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger landed on Dauphin Island and laid siege to Fort Gaines west of the main ship channel. Two days later, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut's fleet of eighteen ships, including four ironclad monitors, entered Mobile Bay and received devastating fire from both Fort Gaines and Fort Morg…READ MORE
22/08/1864
Mustered Out - Alabama 1st Battalion Artillery - Alabama
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