Civil War | Article Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh By the spring of 1864, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut had developed a case of “Monitor Fever.” Since early in the war, when he was named to command...
Civil War | Article Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh Looking north from the beach at Mobile Point, Alabama, a handful of oil platforms clutter the inside of Mobile Bay, a few miles offshore. To the south...