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General Page remained imprisoned until July. A court of inquiry was convened in New Orleans to investigate the charges against Page for violating the laws of war. The court, however, found him "Not Guilty". The court found that much of the destruction of ammunition resulted from a fire in the Citadel
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Granger's soldiers landed at Pilot Town on August 9 and began moving siege artillery within range. The Union fleet also turned their guns on the fort. For the next two weeks Union forces kept up a heavy and consistent artillery fire. On August 16 the Confederates abandoned two batteries of the outer
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the fort. Indignant, he broke his sword over his knee instead of surrendering it to the Federals. Page's situation was further worsened when he was suspected of destroying munitions and works within the fort after the surrender agreement. For this he was arrested by the Federal authorities and
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on Mobile Point, east across from Fort Gaines. The fort was a powerful but outdated fortification garrisoned by 600 men under the command of
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conducted a short siege of the Confederate garrison at the mouth of Mobile Bay under the command of General
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and that Confederates had spiked the artillery pieces before they had raised a white flag of surrender.
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Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, 1864, showing damage to the south side of the fort.
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Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
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The fall of Fort Morgan to the Union forces sealed the mouth of
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would fall on April 12, at the end of the Civil War, after the
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Military operations of the American Civil War in Alabama
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