Rear Admiral Farragut took his squadron of 18 ships, including four monitors and one of which was the USS Tecumseh which had rushed from Pensacola, against the heavy Confederate defenses of Mobile Bay. Soon after 6 a.m., the Union ships crossed the bar and moved into the bay.
The monitors Tecumseh, Manhattan, Winnebago and Chickasaw formed a column to the starboard of the wooden ships in order to take most of Fort Morgan's fire, which they had to pass at the closest range. The seven smaller wooden ships were lashed to the port side (away from Fort Morgan) of the larger wooden screw steamers, as in the passage of Port Hudson earlier in 1863.
--Old B-Runner
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