Wooden ships--port column: _Brooklyn_, twenty-four guns, Capt. James Alden; _Octorara_, six guns, Lieut.-commander Charles H. Greene; _Hartford_, twenty-one guns, Rear-admiral David G. Farragut, Capt. Percival Drayton; _Metacomet_, six guns, Lieut.-commander James E. Jouett; _Richmond_, twenty guns, Capt. Thornton A. Jenkins; _Port Royal_, six guns, Commander Bancroft Gherardi; _Lackawanna_, eight guns, Capt. John B. Marchand; _Seminole_, eight guns, Commander Edward Donaldson; _Monongahela_, eight guns, Commander James H. Strong; _Kennebec_, five guns, Lieut.-commander William P. McCann; _Ossipee_, eleven guns, Commander William E. Le Roy; _Itasca_, five guns, Lieut.-commander George Brown; _Oneida_, nine guns, Commander J. R. M. Mullany; _Galena_, ten guns, Lieut.-commander Clark H. Wells. The _Octorara_, _Metacomet_, and _Port Royal_ were side-wheel double-enders; the others were screw ships. All had been built for the naval service. The signal to move rose to the _Hartford’s_ masthead at 5.30 o’clock, and by 6.10 the leaders were crossing the bar, heading for the narrow passway marked by the red buoy just under the heaviest guns of Fort Morgan. [Illustration: B. Brooklyn. B1. Brooklyn backlog. C. Chickasaw. H. Hartford. L. Lackawanna. M. Monongahela. Mh. Manhattan. O. Ossipee. On. Oneida. R. Richmond. R1 Richmond backing T. Tecumseh. T1. Tecumseh, Position of Wreck. Ts. Tennessee (Confederate.) W. Winnebago. I. Position of vessel when Tecumseh struck the Torpedo. II. Position of vessels when Tennessee passed down the Union line. III. Conflict of Tennessee with the fleet. IV. Selma surrenders. Figures not attached to vessels give the soundings. Within the channel they indicate depth in fathoms; beyond the dotted lines, feet. 1. Octorara. 2. Metacomet. 3. Port Royal. 4. Seminola. 5. Kennebec. 6. Itasca. 7. Galena. b. Buoy marking torpedo line. g. Gaines (Confederate.) m. Morgan. (Confederate.) s. Selma. (Confederate.) w. Water Battery. ? Anchorage before Tennessee was seen coming up to attack. ? Torpedoes. * Light House. Battle of Mobile Bay. _From “The Navy in the Civil War.”_] “It was a glorious sight to see those brave fellows wearing a smile of joy upon their faces in view of such odds against them, and not knowing how soon they and their comrades would be lying at the bottom of the bay. All could not hope to escape this trying ordeal, when several of the coolest officers calculated that at least six of the ships would be blown up. They never stopped to consider whose fate this would be; all they desired was to grapple with the enemy, and see the Union flag floating over the forts that had been taken from their lawful owners.”