OCTOBER 9TH, 1864: A Confederate battery near Freeman's Wharf, Mobile Bay, opened fire on the side-wheeler USS Sebago which was guarding the approaches to Mobile. "There was no evidence of earthworks when these guns were fired," Fitzhugh reported; "they were so masked as to make them difficult to be seen."
The Sebago returned fire for an hour sustaining five casualties.
Even though Mobile Bay was under control of the Union Navy now, fighting continued until the end of the war.
--Old B-R'er
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