At the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, David G. Farragut commanded a fleet of fourteen wooden ships and four ironclads. Running through a minefield and past Confederate forts Gaines, Morgan, and Powell, Farragut's fleet defeated a Confederate flotilla, including the Confederate ironclad Tennessee, and took one of the South's last major ports. The city of Mobile was taken in 1865.
Carruth, Gorton. "The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates". 10th Ed. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. ©1997.