Mobile Bay order of battle

Order of battle, Battle of Mobile Bay

Union

Navy

Rear Admiral David Farragut

14 wooden ships:^[1]

• USS Brooklyn (screw sloop) - Captain James Alden
• USS Itasca (gunboat) - Lieutenant Commander George Brown
• USS Kennebec (gunboat) - Lieutenant Commander William P. McCann
• USS Monongahela (screw sloop) - Commander James H. Strong
• USS Oneida (screw sloop) - Commander J. R. Madison Mullaney
• USS Richmond (screw sloop) - Captain Thornton A. Jenkins
• USS Seminole (screw sloop)
• USS Hartford (2900-ton screw sloop; Farragut's flagship) - Flag Captain Percival Drayton
• USS Galena (950-ton ironclad gunboat/screw steamer) - Lieutenant Commander Clark H. Wells
• USS Metacomet (1173-ton Sassacus-class "double-ender" steam gunboat) - Lieutenant Commander James Edward Jouett
• USS Octorara (981-ton "double-ender" side-wheel gunboat) - Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Green
• USS Lackawanna (1240-ton steam screw sloop-of-war)
• USS Ossipee (1240-ton steam screw sloop) - Commander William E. LeRoy
• USS Port Royal (sidewheel steamer gunboat "double-ender") - Lieutenant Commander Bancroft Gherardi

4 ironclad monitors:

• USS Tecumseh sunk by torpedo (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) - Commander T. A. M. Craven
• USS Manhattan (2100-ton Canonicus-class monitor) - Commander J. W. A. Nicholson
• USS Winnebago (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) - Commander Thomas H. Stevens
• USS Chickasaw (1300-ton Milwaukee-class ironclad river monitor, twin-turrets) - Lieutenant Commander George H. Perkins

Army

Department of the Gulf - MG Edward R. S. Canby (not present)

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Mobile Bay Land Forces      MG Gordon Granger	Clark's Bridade (3rd Bde, 3rd Div, XIX Corps)    Col George W. Clark	77th Illinois - Col David P. Grier 67th Indiana 34th Iowa 96th Ohio Infantry
	Bertram's Brigade (2nd Bde, Mobile Bay Land Forces)    Col Henry Bertram	94th Illinois 20th Iowa 38th Iowa 20th Wisconsin
	Guppey's Brigade (3rd Bde, 2nd Div, XIX Corps)    Col Joshua J. Guppey	161st New York 23rd Wisconsin
	Engineer Brigade (XIX Corps)    Brevet BG Joseph Bailey	96th U.S.C.T - Col John C. Cobb 97th U.S.C.T. - Col George D. Robinson 1st Pontoniers - Cpt J.J. Smith
	Artillery (XIX Corps)    BG Richard Arnold	1st Indiana Heavy Artillery: Maj William Roy 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery 17th Ohio Battery Battery "A", 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery
	Cavalry	3rd Maryland Cavalry Company A, 2nd Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Company M, 14th New York Cavalry

Confederate

Navy

Admiral Franklin Buchanan (captured)

1 ironclad:

• CSS Tennessee (1273-ton ironclad ram; Buchanan's flagship) - Captain James D. Johnston (captured)

3 gunboats:

• CSS Morgan (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) - Commander George W. Harrison
• CSS Gaines (863-ton side-wheel gunboat) - Lieutenant Commander J. W. Bennett (grounded and abandoned)
• CSS Selma (320-ton side-wheel gunboat) (sunk by Metacomet)

Army

• District of the Gulf - Major General Dabney H. Maury

• Fort Morgan - Brigadier General Richard L. Page

garrison about 600

• Fort Gaines - Colonel Charles D. Anderson

garrison about 600

• Fort Powell - Lieutenant Colonel James M. Williams

garrison about 140

Notes

1. ^ DANFS; see articles for each ship

See also

Battle of Mobile Bay