From the American Battlefield Trust April 2022 calendar.
FORT BLAKELY, ALABAMA
126 acres saved
The battlefield at Fort Blakely (located east of Mobile) is a history-laden landscape in which 16,00 Federals, composed of nearly one-third U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) overran Confederate defense in a raging contest on April 9, 1865 -- the same day Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse.
The Trust and its partners, including the Conservation Fund and Historic Fort Blakely State Park, have saved 126 acres at Fort Blakely.
(The Union forces numbered 45,000 against 4,000 Confederate defenders. Not too surprising how this ended.)
--Old Secesh
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