WKRG-CBS News 5 of Mobile-Pensacola reports that Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island at the entrance to Mobile Bay has been included on the Civil War Preservation Trust's annual top ten most-endangered list.
This threat comes more from the Gulf of Mexico as a result of human dredging in the Gulf. Four hundred feet of Dauphin Island shoreline has been lost so far and there is the resultant loss of the established dune system.
Fort Gaines played a significant role in the Battle of Mobile Bay along with Fort Morgan, located across the entrance.
Any Kind of List Like This is Good, Bringing the Plight to Public Awareness. --B-R
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
