been, a step in a series of
grand military operations, by which the United States forces should gain
control of a line vital to the Confederacy, and again divide it into two
fragments. It remained an isolated achievement, though one of great
importance, converting Mobile from a maritime to an inland city, putting
a stop to all serious blockade-running in the Gulf, and crushing finally
the enemy's ill-founded hopes of an offensive movement by ironclads
there equipped.

[Illustration: Entrance of Rear-Admiral Farragut's Fleet into
Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864.

REFERENCE

1. Tecumseh.
2. Manhattan.
3. Winnebago.
4. Chickasaw.
5. Brooklyn.
6. Octorora.
7. Hartford, Flag-ship.
8. Metacomet.
9. Richmond.
10. Port Royal.
11. Lackawanna.
12. Seminole.
13. Admiral's barge Loyall.
14. Monongahela.
15. Kennebec.
16. Ossipee.
17. Itasca.
18. Oneida.
19. Galena.
------ Course of chasing vessels.
...... Course of chased vessels.

EXPLANATION OF DIAGRAM FROM THE FIVE STANDPOINTS OF THE MOBILE FIGHT.

No. 1. Ships lashed together and running in from sea and the
monitors running out of Monitor Bay to take their station inside
or eastward of the line.

No. 2. Running up the channel in line of battle, and engaging
Fort Morgan, leading ship Brooklyn encounters what she supposes
to be torpedoes; monitor Tecumseh is struck by one and sinks;
Brooklyn backs astern, causing confusion; Flag-ship takes the
lead and passes up and engages the ram Tennessee and the
gunboats of the enemy.

No. 3. Running fight with the enemy's fleet, which ends in the
capture of one, destruction of another, and the ram and one
gunboat take shelter again under Fort Morgan.

No. 4. Fleet pass up and are in the act of anchoring when the
ram Tennessee is seen coming out to attack them.

No. 5. Shows the manner the attack was made by the fleet upon
the ram by ramming her in succession and keeping up a constant
fire upon her at the same time.

The points of contact are shown by the sketch in the northeast
corner of the plate.

D. G. Farragut.
_Washington, D. C. March 1, 1865._

De Krafft's flotilla bombarding Fort Powell.]

The city of Mobile is itself some thirty miles from the Gulf, near the
head of a broad but generally shallow bay which bears the sam