Battle of Fort Blakeley

Grant orders Mobile taken. Canby (North) lands on the eastern shore with 45,000 men, reducing the forts one at a time, while Steele (North) marches up from Pensacola with 5,000 Black soldiers.

A three-mile wall studded with redoubts, abatis, and buried land mines, held by 4,000 men under Liddell (South), too few for the front.

16,000 Union troops storm the line at dusk on April 9; the wall falls in half an hour, and more than 2,800 Confederates are captured.

The last major battle of the war, fought hours after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, carried in good part by the men the war was fought over.