Camden County - Blackwood - “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! – Admiral David Farragut and Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864”
Thursday, March 12 – Camden County “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! – Admiral David Farragut and Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864” Camden County College, Connector Building, Room 101, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 -- 7:15 p.m. -- Presented by the Old Baldy Civil War Roundtable. In the spring of 1864, the Southern heartland was still intact from the Shenandoah Valley to the red clay hills of Georgia. Richmond, Atlanta, and the seaport cities of Mobile, Charleston, and Wilmington were thriving despite the Union naval blockade. The effects of the Anaconda Strategy were felt but the impact was more an inconvenience than true suffering. West of the Mississippi the situation was very much the same except for New Orleans and a few Union garrisons on the coast. In the North the high hopes that followed victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg were turning into despair. The Northern electorate blamed President Lincoln for mismanagement of the war and the ...