The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Saturday, April 2, 2022

American Battlefield Trust & Fort Blakely, Alabama

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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