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This blog is devoted to exploring the history, historic sites and heritage tourism opportunities of the American South! A guide to new additions and updates to the expansive site www.exploresouthernhistory.com, this blog features forts, battlefields, Native American sites, architectural treasures and natural wonders.

Showing posts with label spanish fort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spanish fort. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Forts of Mobile Bay, Alabama - Spanish Fort

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The city of Spanish Fort, located on the high bluffs opposite Mobile , occupies one of the most historic sites in Alabama and the South. The...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Battle of Blakeley - Spanish Fort, Alabama

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When Spanish Fort fell on the night of April 8, 1865, Union General E.R.S. Canby immediately pushed troops up the east shore to join the gr...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

The Battle of Spanish Fort - Spanish Fort, Alabama

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Located directly opposite Mobile Bay from the City of Mobile , Spanish Fort is today a busy city with rapidly growing commercial and residen...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Mobile Campaign - Mobile Bay, Alabama

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Although Union forces had taken Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan at the mouth of Mobile Bay during the summer of 1864, by the following year th...
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