The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning of Battle

On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, some sixteen thousand Union troops launched a bold, coordinated assault on the three-mile-long line of earthworks known as Fort Blakeley. The charge was one of the grand spectacles of the Civil War, the climax of a weeks-long campaign that resulted in the capture of Mobile--the last major Southern city to remain in Confederate hands. Historian Mike Bunn takes readers into the chaos of those desperate moments along the waters of the storied Mobile-Tensaw Delta. With a crisp narrative that also serves as a guided tour of Alabama's largest Civil War battlefield, the book pioneers a telling of Blakeley's story through detailed accounts from those who participated in the harrowing siege and assault.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: History Press
Published: 03/01/2021
ISBN: 9781467148634
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d