The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning of Battle

by Mike Bunn

Book Overview

On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, some sixteen thousand Union troops launched a bold, coordinated assault on the three-mile-long line of earthworks known as Fort Blakeley. The charge was one of the grand spectacles of the Civil War, the climax of a weeks-long campaign that resulted in the capture of Mobile--the last major Southern city to remain in Confederate hands. Historian Mike Bunn takes readers into the chaos of those desperate moments along...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467148636
• ISBN13: 9781467148634
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"