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Fort Gaines is a historic fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States. It was named for Edmund Pendleton Gaines . Established in 1821, it is best known for its role in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War .
The siege of Fort Gaines, Alabama, occurred between August 3 and 8, 1864, during the American Civil War. It took place in the Mobile Bay area of Alabama as part of the larger battle of Mobile Bay , and resulted in the surrender of the fort and its defenders.
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American 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: Morgan, Gaines and Powell.
Fort Gaines may refer to: Fort Gaines, Georgia, a city located in Clay County, Georgia; Fort Gaines (Alabama), a fort on Dauphin Island; Fort Gaines, Maryland, an American Civil War-era fort that defended the northeastern approaches to Washington, D.C.
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Fort Gaines, Alabama, as it appeared in 2008. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, Anderson chose to follow his home state and the Confederate cause. On March 16 he was appointed a first lieutenant in the Regular Confederate Artillery. [6] His first assignment was at Fort Morgan, guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama.
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