Getaway Idea On Alabama Gulf Coast-147th Commemoration
“Damn the Torpedoes! – Full Speed Ahead!”, the familiar battle cry of the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. Union Adm. David Farragut skillfully slipped past the mine field off Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines where the ironclad USS Tecumseh had already sank. Then Farragut got into a slug-fest with the Confederate ironclad USS Tennessee.