“Damn the Torpedoes!” The Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864

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“Damn the Torpedoes!” The Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864

Lashed in the rigging of Hartford’s mainmast high above the deck, Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut had a bird’s-eye view of his squadron of eighteen ships as it fought past the booming guns of Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay, Alabama. Everything was going according to plan until the monitor Tecumseh suddenly rolled to starboard, her [...]

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