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Damn the torpedoes at Mobile Bay
1864
Mobile Bay, Alabama
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Farragut ran his fleet past the guns of Fort Morgan and into a minefield, mines were then called torpedoes, after the lead ironclad struck one and sank in seconds. Lashed to the rigging to see over the smoke, he ordered the column on through. Taking the bay closed the last major Confederate port on the Gulf and helped Lincoln win re-election that November.
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