The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning of Battle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467148634)

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 the waters of the storied Mobile-Tensaw Delta. With a crisp narrative that also serves as a guided tour of Alabama's largest Civil War battlefield, the book pioneers a telling of Blakeley's story through detailed accounts from those who participated in the harrowing siege and assault.

Author: Mike Bunn
ISBN-10: 1467148636
ISBN-13: 9781467148634
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2021
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d