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.

Author: Mike Bunn
Publisher: History PR
Published: 03/01/2021
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781540246387
ISBN10: 1540246388
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)