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The 1865 Mobile Campaign
“The Best Were Beer Kegs”
Spanish Fort
The Minette Bay Battery
Minette Bayou’s Pontoon Bridges
The Apalachee Batteries
The Setting: Apalachee Batteries
Fortification Terminology
Apalachee Batteries: Construction and Enslaved Labor
Prisoners of War
The Siege of Spanish Fort Begins
April 1-9, 1865: “We Sleep at Our Guns”
April 9-12, 1865: “They Were Not Days of Quiet”
Fort Blakeley
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The Siege of Spanish Fort:
