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| | The Bay Fight, A Sketch of the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, By William F. Hutchinson, MD |
 | | And when, a little later, the great monitor Tecumseh came steaming slowly up from the eastward, direct from New York, and anchored near the other ironclads, which had arrived the night before, we knew that the decisive moment, the moment for which we had been waiting so eagerly and long, was at hand. |
 | | The USS Brooklyn led the line of U.S Ships in the action at Mobile Bay, because she had equipment aboard to remove torpedoes or mines laid by the Confederates in the channel to the city. |
 | | Admiral Farragut climbed the rigging of his Flag Ship, the USS Hartford high enough for all the men to see to inspire their courage as the battle raged against the Rebel Forts and it’s Navy Flotilla. |
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