In the previous post, I mentioned that the mortar was at Fort Huger in Alabama. There evidently is not much information on this fort. At least I couldn't find much.
It was in northern Mobile Bay, near Spanish Fort, a little bit north of current U-10 and called a marshland battery. One map of the Spanish Fort battlefield shows another work just to the west of it, but I couldn't get close enough on the map to see what the name of the fortification was.
Today, there are house for sale at a place called Fort Huger Pt., which might be the fort's site.
When Confederate soldiers evacuated Spanish Fort at the end of the battle, they crossed a foot bridge connecting it with Fort Huger.
It would have been on Minette Bay.
There is also a Fort Huger in Virginia.
A Mystery to Me. --Old B-Runner
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According to a New York Times article on the siege of Spanish Fort, Huger was said to have 9 guns. The other fort you mentioned was probably Fort Tracy which the NYT article said had two large siege guns.
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